9 tricks to motivate yourself to reach your goals

Motivation often comes from outside sources.

Maybe your boss has set a due date for a project report or your personal trainer is shouting at you while you power through push-ups.

But sometimes motivation needs to come from within. Your boss won't always be hovering over you asking for status updates on your project report - you have to make the personal choice to work on it.

Because pushing yourself to work toward your goals is anything but easy, we checked out the Quora thread, "How can I motivate myself to work hard?" and rounded up the best advice.

Read on for the tips.