From the author: My opinion and nothing more)) I think the state of motivation is very much overrated, as if it is the only factor of success. This is not fucking true! And it infuriates me a little that they are trying to pass one thing off as another. In practice, the state of emotional uplift, which is taken as motivation, is broken by the first obstacles and failures. Success is ultimately achieved by those who suffer falls, analyze the situation, change their approach and generally develop in the area of ​​their capabilities, resources and talents, if you like . Let's talk about my searches on the topic, how my idea developed. The model initially seemed painfully simple and logical to me. Everything about it was cool, but there are always “buts” and they were there. In practice, something different happened, something that is not taken into account in the model. I believed that motivation simply exists, but disappears in the presence of strict internal restrictions. For such a person, any activity brings discomfort and negative feelings (yes, yes, I remind you that negative feelings are a consequence of limitations). Such a person is in a state of avoidance or overexertion; he either hides from discomfort or tolerates it. Energy is wasted on this. Motivation will appear if you work through the limitations. Logical? Freedom will appear and people will begin to act. Like, I worked through my fear of communication and immediately went for a promotion at work. However, in reality, not everyone changes something; many continue to be in the ass and apathy. Some kind of inconsistency... It turned out that the absence of strict restrictions does not always lead to the emergence of a goal! But a person needs at least some silhouette in the distance, an image of a realistically achievable goal. This will focus the person and organize his activities towards the goal. Voila, the person is motivated, he has a desire to act. Cool, don't you agree?! But some people had difficulties with their goals. They “set” them and don’t achieve them, or simply cannot make a decision about what they want. So I was faced with another level, immaturity and the absence of a formed value-semantic structure of the personality. Meanings are a necessary category of experience. If there is no point in achieving a goal, then there will be no motivation, there will be no energy. Sometime in my life, I decided to help people and for many years I tried to start counseling. But I didn’t succeed and I patiently walked towards the goal. I once worked as a night watchman, cleared snow at construction sites and plastered walls, but internally I was focused on something else. There were problems and difficulties, and still are, but I overcame many obstacles. The reasons to overcome were invisible from the outside and sometimes not clear to me. But there was a meaning in everything, which turned out to be stronger than the difficulties. Now I don’t care about motivation, I do it in any state, my activities are filled with meanings that I have lived and now realize in actions. My attitude allows me to break through obstacles no matter what, and even if I feel tension, fear or anxiety. I don’t want to praise myself, but damn, I just want to say that you can do the same, and some much more and better! There are feelings that cannot be processed (but this is not certain), but those that can be overcome. Challenges of fate, which are worked out not in soul-searching, but in active action, provided that you are “building a temple.” I think the reference is clear. Now look what happens. Motivation can be blocked for essentially different reasons that are at different levels. 1. Limiting beliefs. That is, holes in the side of the ship of your personality. You spend all your resources bailing out water and patching holes in the bottom of the ship. 2. Lack of personal strength and energy. When you do nothing but bail out the water that sinks the ship and try to plug the holes, the ship's crew gets tired, loses faith in themselves, loses coherence in their work, resources run out and powerlessness sets in, an unwillingness to do what does not bring results. Essentially, this is a consequence of the influence of restrictions. The measure of impact is rest, recuperation and subsequent development of restrictions. 3. Absence.