Motivation

I love to motivate you!
Everyone knows that feeling: there is a task to be completed, but you have no motivation to do it. You know that you need to get some exercise, but you just don't have the drive. We've all been there.
It's important to understand how motivation works, and also that motivation comes in different forms.
I’ll be happy to help you find your motivation.

Motivation as defined in specialist literature
The term "intrinsic motivation" refers to behaviours that we engage in because they are rewarding to us personally. For example, activities that are fun, that satisfy our interests or that represent a challenge.
By way of contrast, extrinsic motivation relates to our desire to engage in certain behaviours because they promise a potential advantage (reward), or because we want to avoid a certain disadvantage (punishment).
Intrinsic motivation can, however, be destroyed by extrinsic rewards. If a behaviour is almost always controlled through external incentives (instructions, rewards), then our inner involvement decreases to the extent that our sense of autonomy is undermined.
This can diminish our capacity for self-determination, which is responsible for the experience whereby the joy in an activity comes from ourselves (flow). This is also known as the corruption or overjustification effect.
However, not all experts agree that this effect exists.