How to Motivate Yourself According to Behavioral Psychology
Use strategic rewards to boost willpower and perform at your best
When you experience setbacks at work—and every ambitious person inevitably does—you tend to lose motivation. When that new client falls through at the last minute, for example, or when you don’t hit your quarterly goals. Or when your boss gives you “constructive feedback” on a project that you’ve spent weeks perfecting.
You may not even realize that these stumbling blocks are affecting your performance, but they are. Maybe it’s a little harder to get out of bed in the morning. You may not have as much energy to go to the gym or meet friends after work. Perhaps you finding yourself procrastinating on projects.
I used to believe that I simply needed to power through—use whatever energy I had left to keep working and hope for better results. But, finally, exhausted and unsatisfied with the results that I was achieving, I turned to behavioral psychology to learn how to get “unstuck” and perform at my best.
I’m going to cover the psychology behind how rewards influence our behavior and offer some techniques that you can practice to get and stay motivated.
