With each rebuff, DuBuc tried to motivate herself afresh.
Ameo can't motivate herself to go back to teaching.
Radha Vyas had a holiday that was terrible enough to motivate herself to start a business so nobody else would ever have to go through what she did.
Katy Milkman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, found that when she got home from work she couldn't motivate herself to go to the gym and would rather read a book or watch TV.
Scott's sexual jealousy and desire for fame might have hampered his wife's creativity, but, as Milford chronicles, Zelda also suffered from debilitating mental illness (her diagnosis might today be classified as manic depression) and struggled to motivate herself.
She experienced depression, became unable to motivate herself and then suffered further problems in her private life, such as it was, being charged with shoplifting and later being found in possession of drugs.
Its heroine is Tracy (Lola Kirke), an ambitious but gauche 18-year-old who arrives in New York to study literature but can't motivate herself either to work or to fit in socially.
And though it's a little hard to accept, given what we know about her, that she could actually motivate herself to answer a help-wanted ad, much less be persuaded, rather easily, to undress in front of a roomful of strangers, Ms. Carlin makes suspension of disbelief possible.
By setting small, realistic, and attainable goals and imagining the degree in her hand down the road, Annie could have re-motivated herself to accomplish this goal.
And she says after more than two decades she says has no problems trying to motivate herself to continue.
