Short term motivation is something basic like having enough money to feed your family or doing something because it is going to help someone right away.

短期动力是基本的东西就象有足够的钱喂养家庭或做一些事情，因为它可以立刻帮助人们。

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Find short term and long term motivation and work on it

找到短期和长期的动力并为之努力

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Any set of weight-loss techniques is only as good as the motivation to use it in both the short and long term.

任何减肥技巧只能根据短期或长期减肥目的，才能使效果最好。

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The short-term gains will be far outweighed by the significant losses of trust, cooperation, loyalty, and motivation you create.

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If I were to reduce our counter-productive speaking to a single motivation, it would be this: We often speak to make ourselves feel better in the short-term.

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