The 6 Most Effective Motivational Methods
When you can't find reasons to be happy, it's difficult to fall asleep, and your lack of life goals makes it hard to get up and go to work. For times like this, you need to know good motivational methods...
How to Motivate Students
Once a student gets to middle school, motivation becomes one of the most important factors in how well they will learn. In fact, the apathy that usually comes along with being an unmotivated student sometimes involves other behaviors that are hard...
Love as a Source of Motivation and Energy
We all know that love heals all. It has the power to give you a new vision of the future. When you love someone and that person feels loved, a feeling of mutual acceptance and trust is born. It...
Success in Your New Job
Technology is moving forward at the speed of light. We communicate and move so very quickly now. We start and end stages in our lives, eat, and cook at a startling velocity. In the working world, things follow much the...
Hope: The Drive and Inspiration of Desire
Try to think of a time when you were intensely hopeful. Was your hope tied to other mental variables? Odds are that one of those variables was motivation. When someone or something really gets your hopes up, you can...
7 Tips to Gain Self-Motivation
Where does self-motivation come from? It's such a powerful force, the strength you need to make your goals and dreams reality. Rafa Nadal comes to mind and his famous "come on!" when he's feeling the pressure on the tennis court....
Attribution Theory: Origin, Development, and Consequences
All of us interpret behavior. We interpret our own behavior and the behavior of others. Attribution theory is a psychological theory that explains how we interpret behavior. Belonging to the branch of social psychology, it was primarily developed by Heider. He...
Apathy: When You Have No Motivation and You’re Exhausted
People say that apathy is like a curse. They say once it catches you, it won’t let you go. I'll mess up your life, extinguish any fire you have inside, and put out your feelings completely. It’s a state...
Prochaska and DiClemente’s Transtheoretical Model of Change
The transtheoretical model of change came about in an attempt to understand how to get people to change their addictive behaviors. Psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente came up with the idea in 1982. These two researchers tried to understand...
Intrinsic Motivation – The Chance To Enjoy Your Time
As humans we're naturally curious. We seek out feelings, and have goals and objectives. We all have motivation somewhere inside us, the desire to overcome obstacle