Content on max-ing motivation and productivity is everywhere. You probably have a mental list of all the platitudes or hacks. Motivational quotes trick us into feeling like we’ve accomplished something.

Then why do we have days when we check off items from To-Do's and days ...

DA is released when we work towards something we think is rewarding - a video game or desire for something tasty. 

DA is released while predicting and craving rewards, not so much while experiencing it. The process : 

1. Release in Planning Network ...

Ways you can consciously increase and sustain your motivation : 

• Anticipation of Rewards: Visualize a completed task and act towards it, it activates the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC)
• Record your Progress: Track your progress an...

Dopamine (DA) is synonymously used with happiness and reward. It helps feel pleasure and relays 'motivational salience'. 

Motivational Salience means DA

1. Indicates positive rewarding stimuli and 
2. Responds to negative non-rewarding stimuli like stres...

Having resolutions and not following through is not because you didn't have the time. It's the Neurochemistry of your Motivation & Reward Systems.

Motivation is 

• A complex process in the brain
• Involves multiple brain regions
• Several Pathways