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Motivation & Goals

In this category, you will find all our science-based articles on motivation, self-determination theory, goal-setting and modalities like motivational interviewing.

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These detailed, science-based exercises will help you or your clients create actionable goals and master techniques for lasting behavior change.

Intrinsic motivation

Intrinsic Motivation Explained: 10 Examples & Key Factors

Intrinsic motivation is a much sought-after quality. “Perhaps no single phenomenon reflects the positive potential of human nature as much as intrinsic motivation, the inherent [...]

18 Best Motivational Interviewing Worksheets & Activities

Helping people change unhealthy or damaging behavior is one of the most significant challenges therapists face (Hall, Gibbie, & Lubman, 2012). When encouragement to stop [...]

Measuring intrinsic motivation

Measuring Intrinsic Motivation: 24 Questionnaires & Scales

Intrinsic motivation refers to when we feel compelled to do something for internal reasons, such as when a task interests us (Ryan & Deci, 2000). [...]

Intrinsic motivation

How to Increase Intrinsic Motivation (According to Science)

Humans have grown to be curious, active, and deeply social beings, driven by intrinsic tendencies to understand and master both our inner and outer worlds [...]

Motivational Interviewing Principles

4 Principles of Motivational Interviewing to Elicit Change

Motivational interviewing is an excellent tool to help motivate your clients to achieve their goals. By getting clients to engage in behavior change, it is [...]

Motivational Interviewing Toolkit

Motivational Interviewing: 30+ Tools, Affirmations & More

Have you ever experienced the frustration of working with a client who just cannot seem to find the motivation to change their problematic behavior? Learning [...]

Comfort Zone

How to Leave Your Comfort Zone and Enter Your ‘Growth Zone’

Life is full of opportunities to step outside the comfort zone, but grabbing hold of them can be difficult. Sometimes the problem is not being [...]

motivational interviewing

What Is Motivational Interviewing? A Theory of Change

Conversations about change occur all the time. They can be related to just about anything and can happen with friends and family or with a [...]

The 6 Stages of Change: Worksheets for Helping Your Clients

It was Dean Karnazes’s 30th birthday, and he felt trapped. Despite a successful career and a happy marriage, he was lost and disillusioned. That evening, [...]

Goal-Setting: 20 Templates & Worksheets for Achieving Goals

We all have goals, some big, some small, some safe, and some bold. We wish to become a painter, to move to a new house, [...]

3 Goal Achievement Exercises Pack