When motivation doesn't move you to action
When we're unproductive or wasting our time, we like to tell ourselves we're missing motivation. We intuitively think that we need this motivation to give us the spark to get started.
However, we can reframe and restructure our lives so that we never need to worry about motivation again.
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Debunking some of the popular myths around motivation.
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