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Maintaining Motivation

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Tool Overview

The maintaining motivation worksheet encourages us to remind ourselves why we wanted to make our change. It asks us to think about how far we’ve come and how the changes we’ve made have impacted our life. It encourages us to think about how our future will look if we continue with our positive changes and how it will look if we stop working towards our positive changes. Finally, it asks us to list out what we can do to maintain our motivation.

When to Use This Tool

The maintaining Motivation worksheet is useful in the maintenance stage of change to help stay on track and keep up motivation.

How To Use This Tool

Answer the questions in the worksheet.

Example Scenarios

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PDF 08/15/2024

Maintaining Motivation Worksheet Example Scenario

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05/16/2023

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