self-motivation
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Barriers to communication, lack of mentoring for staff, problems building a work culture, and difficulties with self-motivation were all cited.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024
The more effective type of self-motivation enhances autonomy.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021
“I really can’t repeat it because y’all going to have to bleep out most of the things that I say,” Saunders said of her verbal self-motivation.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021
Younger employees are also among the most likely to say that they lack adequate home office space and that self-motivation has been an impediment to getting things done, the survey said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2020
Within literacy, the expectation that literate people receive, by virtue of knowledge of language, good selection procedures-considered as universal and permanent as literacy itself-was part of its multi-layered self-motivation.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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