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Negative motivation is the real way to make changes.
It's great to have goals and positive things to look forward to when you reach those goals.
But to be consistent in doing the hard work to reach that goal it's better to scare the shit out of your self by asking
"what happens to me if I don't do the work?"
I think there's a very fine line with negative motivation, stress builds up really fast and then it's just counter productive and harmful