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.
36 Motivational Interviewing Quotes to Inspire Your Clients
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative therapeutic approach designed to guide clients toward behavioral change. This article presents quotes related to motivational interviewing that will inspire [...]
Motivational Interviewing Steps: 4 Processes That Elicit Change
If you are a therapist, coach, medical professional, or business leader, then you are in the business of changing behavior. Think about it: therapists help [...]
Motivational Interviewing Principles: 4 Steps 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 [...]
Your Ultimate Motivational Interviewing Toolkit [2020 Update]
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 Practical 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 and 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, [...]
21 Self-Determination Skills and Activities to Utilize Today
How do we move ourselves and others to act? It all hinges on motivation. People are often motivated to act by external influences, be they [...]
The Science of Improving Motivation at Work
All motivation comes from within, whether it is triggered by rewards or endeavors that enhance our self-image or intrinsically motivating activities that we engage in [...]
