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.

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: 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). [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]