Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org, and in this quick self-help segment, I'm going to tell you

how to motivate yourself. Okay, welcome back. So let's crack into this topic of motivation. And I have a lot of

videos about motivation, so I'm going to cover different aspects here. I've got a video already that talks about the distinction between intrinsic extrinsic motivation.

In this video, I really want to come at this from the angle of how to motivate you.

How do you get to motivate yourself more?

So it's one thing to watch a motivational video.

It's also another thing for somebody to be kicking you in the ass like your boss or your parents or even me giving you instructions or giving you drive basically.

But it's a totally different thing to be self-reliant and to be generating this motivation within yourself.

So let's talk a little bit about what is involved there.

So let's, right at the beginning create this distinction between really two

levels on which you might want motivation. So you might be watching this video right now and you might be looking to motivate yourself to do what I would consider a chore or some sort of like side activity in your life.

So what might that be? That might be maybe you have trouble going to

the gym so you want to motivate yourself to do that. You have trouble with your

diet so you want to get more on track with the diet goals that you have.

Maybe you have trouble starting that report

that you need to do.

Maybe you have trouble getting yourself motivated

to do the taxes or do some sort of chore

around the house or some chore for your business, whatever.

So those kinds of things.

There's that kind of lack of motivation.

And then I would say there's a much deeper lack of motivation, this is a much deeper problem, is the problem of lack of direction in your life.

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