From the author: The materials in this article were created in collaboration with my colleague Ekaterina Bolonicheva. We, practicing psychologists, hear this question from almost every client. “I can’t do anything,” “I don’t want anything,” “I don’t see the point in anything,” “I don’t know what I want.” If you have this question, then most likely it means that your internal motivation is negative. Internal motivation is our main driver. If we are motivated to achieve a certain result, we will achieve it with a 99.9% probability. It all starts with her. So, motivation is the code of your thinking! It’s like a written program on the motherboard of your personal computer. There are only two types of motivation: negative and positive, carrot in front and carrot in back. As a rule, a person has both, but in different proportions. You may have different types of motivations triggered in different aspects of your life. Therefore, in order to better answer the question posed in the title of this article, you must know yourself better. First test: if you have a question about motivation and you ask yourself it in the last few days, then negative motivation is triggered. In other words, you Hedgehog are a proud bird, and until you are kicked, you will not fly. J Just kidding. J A person whose defining method of motivation is positive motivation simply does not ask himself such questions. So, if you answered this question for yourself. Then we move on. “How to motivate yourself? - no way! Stay in..!” This is a quote from the famous designer Artemy Lebedev. Negative motivation is hidden in it. And if it dominates in you, then you will immediately react to it and challenge yourself in the form of evidence that you are not like that! “I’m tired of everything!”, “Tired of living the way I live!”, “Tired of seeing this scarecrow in the mirror !”, “Tired of counting pennies until salary”, “Tired of being in this terrible relationship”... This is the state when you want to shout to the whole world “I can’t do this anymore!” This is where the forward movement begins. This is such a kick to oneself. True, it lasts for a week, maximum two. Why? Because he was fast, good, he was so adrenaline! But the kick is that the flight range is not very long. (((And then the negative belief about yourself is triggered: “I’m a failure”, “There’s no point”, or “I won’t succeed”, “It wouldn’t have worked out anyway”, “I knew it.” That’s how you come out of Negative motivation accumulates over and over again. Adrenaline motivation is a movement in a certain vicious circle. Negative emotions and events increase, the negativity grows and the person accumulates, a state of “no light, no hello” is created and consolidated. A person in such motivation continues to give himself. more and more kicks. However, self-confidence becomes less and less and less. Then there is depression, prolonged depression, a breakdown, and you can continue on your own! But the thing is that a person is accustomed to using the mechanism of negative motivation built into him and it no longer creates. positive motivation for oneself. Behavior has been formed, and it is simply impossible for new behavior to squeeze into increasingly narrower and narrower gaps of opportunity in order to change the running in a circle and take its own path. What to do for a person’s movement in life to go in a positive direction, it is necessary to have a front one? drive and rear-wheel drive, like a car. Therefore, in order to change the situation today, add positive motivation to yourself and gradually learn to think positively, and in the future, fully act differently. This can be done with the help of psychotechnologies for positive future. And the simplest of them is to draw your ideal image, having achieved your goal, in your imagination. Roughly speaking, this is visualization. And there are nuances here. Visualization must have a clear goal, that is, we repeat, a clear image of yourself having achieved the goal. You need to introduce yourself as if from the outside. You need to dream, raising your eyes fifteen degrees above the horizon, and watching a film about yourself in a wonderful future. Do it!