Using Incentives
Incentives, such as rewards and punishments, motivate action by creating immediate mini-goals that align with your main goal.
- Use rewards that lead to progress toward your goal.
- Avoid incentives that result in easy but meaningless targets.
- Balance incentives with breaks to ensure motivation comes from the goal itself.
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