any feelings of sadness, futility, or lack of motivation that keeps you from succeeding as well as you could in a task or goal 1. discouragement an internal monologue you have 2. motivation with yourself about the way you view yourself in the dally situations of life an internal desire to accomplisha 3. self-talk task or move forward toward a goal the types of positive or negative 4. thought patterns things that you are thinking about on a reaular basis