<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/every-day-new-start.jpg" width="350" height="201" alt="Every day is a new start picture" class="alignleft" />A lot of very smart people end up as failures – failures in life, in work, and in relationships. A lot of very smart people are given plenty of opportunities for success and never take advantage of them. </p>
<p>A lot of very smart people are born into privilege and yet turn into failures. And a lot of very smart people accumulate degrees and skills and still fail to achieve what we think they would. And what is the common factor in all of these failures? It’s lack of self-motivation.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2016/02/no-self-motivation-no-success-10-reasons-why/" title="Permanent Link: No Self-Motivation = No Success – Here’s 10 Reasons Why" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2760,"date":"2016-02-16T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T01:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2020-12-21T23:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T04:35:54","slug":"no-self-motivation-no-success-10-reasons-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2016\/02\/no-self-motivation-no-success-10-reasons-why\/","title":{"rendered":"No Self-Motivation = No Success \u2013 Here\u2019s 10 Reasons Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/every-day-new-start.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"201\" alt=\"Every day is a new start picture\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>A lot of very smart people end up as failures \u2013 failures in life, in work, and in relationships. A lot of very smart people are given plenty of opportunities for success and never take advantage of them. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of very smart people are born into privilege and yet turn into failures. And a lot of very smart people accumulate degrees and skills and still fail to achieve what we think they would. And what is the common factor in all of these failures? It\u2019s lack of self-motivation.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2016\/02\/no-self-motivation-no-success-10-reasons-why\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: No Self-Motivation = No Success \u2013 Here\u2019s 10 Reasons Why\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}