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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/internal-vs-external-motivation/">Motivation: Internal vs. External</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted November 23, 2007 at 06:00 PM by Shannon Clark</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">When it comes to staying the course on your healthy lifestyle plan, motivation is extremely important. Unless you have some reason to get yourself to the gym and keep the cakes and cookies out of the pantry, you likely aren’t going to succeed. Finding what motivates you is an important factor in seeing success, however it’s also important to realize that all motivation is not created equally. External The first type of motivation is external motivation. This is motivation that is heavily influenced by other people. For example, it could be wanting to look good for a high school reunion or maybe trying to win a bet with a co-worker on who can lose the most weight.&nbsp; External motivation is also something that you likely respond to and find success from, but…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/internal-vs-external-motivation/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/internal-vs-external-motivation/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/internal-vs-external-motivation/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/internal-vs-external-motivation/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a><br /><br /> </P>