The difference between willpower and self-motivation comes down to how your impulses and temptations help or hurt as you pursue goals. Willpower is simply the idea that you can control an impulsive temptation to behave badly by exercising mental restraint. Self-motivation is that impulsive temptation. Although, the idea is that the impulse is to do something […]
There is always a root cause for lacking self-motivation and it’s not that you’re lazy. Using laziness as your excuse for lacking motivation will only stop you from finding the real reason. Instead, focus on the facts. Motivation is the energy to act. Self-motivation is when that energy to act comes from within instead of […]
I’m no chef, but I do know the best recipes have the fewest ingredients and a lot of love. This same rule of thumb applies to the recipe for raising a self-motivated child. There are only two ingredients that parents need to raise a self-motivated child. First, start with psychologist Bonnie Benard’s research on raising […]