We can gain more energy by doing things that motivate and inspire us or we can lose energy by negative self-talk and developing poor lifestyle habits.

我们可以通过做一些激励我们的事情来提升活力，或者是由于消极的自我对话和养成不良的生活习惯而失去活力。

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Do your thoughts inspire and motivate you, or hold you back from your best self?

你的想法会赋予你灵感、激励你还是阻止你做最好的自己？

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But a dramatic first triumph can inspire and motivate you and transform your self-conception from "I'm a loser" to "I'm the kind of person who hits grand slams."

但戏剧性的第一次胜利能激发你提高积极性，改变你的自我意识，从“我真的不行”变到“我真是天生高手”。

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To motivate consistent decisions in favor of self-care, it is helpful for people notice immediate, experiential rewards, ones that can be tied to enhancing the areas of the life that are most meaningful.

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We can use these results to design incremental incentives, based on self-interest, integrated into daily behavior that will motivate our colleagues, companies, communities, and consumers to change themselves.

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To inspire and motivate people to walk, WalkBoston began creating detailed, easy to use, self-guided maps in 1995.

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