Laura Howe

“Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth. Feelings that you are making a meaningful contribution to work arise from intrinsic conditions of the work itself. Motivation is much less about external prodding or stimulation, and much more about what’s inside of you, and inside of your work.”

… NYC but I was not ready to give up my therapist.) She turned an old adage on its head, telling me, “if you don’t try, you’ll know what’s going to happen.” Meaning that if I sit in my anxiety, and don’t allow myself to move forward, I know what will happe…

You’re not unmotivated. You’re not lazy. You’re not bored. You are afraid. We are all afraid. And yet, we are still here. So every day, choose to be here, moving forward.