To achieve your goal in life you need to be motivated. Motivation can come from within. It is called as self motivation - Internal Motivation. Self motivated people don't require external stimuli to goad them to work and achieve their goals. It comes from within, from inside them. Self motivation is the ability to motivate yourself, to find a reason and the necessary strength to do something, without the need of being influenced to do so by another person. Working in a careful and consistent manner without giving up. There are others who need external forces - external motivation - to motivate them. Motivation comes from outside the learner in the form of tangible rewards and punishments such as competition, grades, awards, promotion, pay, etc.

At times there are tasks that you do because you want to do them. At other times there are tasks that you do because someone else wants you to do them or rewards you for doing them. Recognizing the differences between those two types of tasks will help you understand your motivations.For example, Your Reasons For Going To College. It may be that you are going to college because you want to do it. It is also possible that you are going to college because someone else expects or requires you to do it. It's okay to be externally motivated by such things as getting higher grades, praise from your parents, or earning more money. However, it will be harder for you to stay highly motivated in the areas where you only have extrinsic reasons for being in those situations. Performing tasks to look good for others or to please your parents can be difficult to maintain. Constantly using external motivation when you are confronted with difficult tasks requires a great deal of effort. "Internal motivation" means that your motivation to accomplish your goal comes from within you. Your motivation is from you. It is determined by your own values and goals. With internal motivation, it is much easier to stay motivated. Trying to find some internal value in everything you have to do can improve your overall motivation (e.g., learning astronomy so that you can explain to your little brother what stars really are). Motivation is the one area which is very much under your control. We cannot say it is only external motivation or internal motivation that is better. But we can say it is internal motivation that is stronger and continues to remain with you. If you read the autobiographies of great leaders and achievers, you will see for yourself that all of them were strongly motivated internally to achieve their goals. Life has its ups and downs. Every day is not the same. On some days you are in a chatty mood, sometimes you are in a sad mood. When you are sad or not upto your usual self, you can use external motivation to pull yourself up and to brighten up.