A 56-year-old communications and PR professional shares his strategy for staying motivated in his job search, despite getting ...

Motivation — it’s one of those buzzwords that gets thrown around among self-help circles. It’s like the catch-all cure for all your ailments. Struggling in life? Get motivated! Want a better ...

You’ll spend around 90,000 hours at work, so shouldn’t work help you thrive? Recent research points to three psychological ...

Motivation and enjoyment can return within 2 to 8 weeks of starting depression treatment, but it often improves more slowly than other symptoms because it’s influenced by many factors. Combining ...

People can have a lack of motivation when they feel overwhelmed, stressed, fatigued, or burnt out. However, a persistent sense of apathy, or lack of interest in doing enjoyable activities, can also be ...

Traditional employee motivation strategies, like financial incentives, often yield only short-term results, failing to build lasting commitment. Leaders must instead cultivate self-driven extrinsic ...

Motivation isn’t just a feeling—it’s a pattern. A pattern of behavior, of habits, of choosing again and again to pursue something that matters. Too often we confuse motivation with external forces: ...

We’ve all done it. We’ve chosen a diet or workout plan that will get us in shape; said we’re going to spend less time on our cellphones and more time reading; or committed to making the most out of ...

Motivation is affected by oxidative stress in the brain, a study shows. The findings also suggest motivation can be improved through nutritional interventions. In life, motivation can be the ...

Exercise has a lot of important benefits. But most people don’t exercise or don’t do it consistently or long enough to get those benefits. If you ask people why they dropped out of their program, I ...