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Self Motivation: Staying Motivated to Reach Your Goals

By SoulSalt staff — 2019

Self motivation is the ability to drive oneself to take initiative and action to pursue goals and complete tasks. It’s an inner drive to take action — to create and to achieve. It’s what pushes you to keep going on tasks, especially those you’re pursuing because you want to, not because someone told you to.

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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

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