To achieve this long term determination with regards to exercise, the goals should be ones of self satisfaction, health improvement and social relationships, whereas goals to improve appearance and lose weight are extrinsic ones, thus, causing psychosocial distress such as dissatisfaction and dysfunctions leading to a short lived exercise life, which is the usual result of most diets and exercises. Goal content or basis can be the key to self-determination and favorable outcomes, utilizing intrinsic motivation to get more positive and continual results. I can readily relate to this study, since I usually start my diets and exercises for the wrong reasons and don 't continue them. This different vision on self-determination, changing the goal to one where it is more for myself than for others, will help me do things for my own benefit. Sometimes there will be obstacles in the way but like the article says there are two types of people the ones that give up and others that look passed what is preventing you from achieving your goal. If motivation is for the right reasons, ones ' self well-being, then one would be determined to continue for a long time without failure, no matter what the circumstance
To achieve this long term determination with regards to exercise, the goals should be ones of self satisfaction, health improvement and social relationships, whereas goals to improve appearance and lose weight are extrinsic ones, thus, causing psychosocial distress such as dissatisfaction and dysfunctions leading to a short lived exercise life, which is the usual result of most diets and exercises. Goal content or basis can be the key to self-determination and favorable outcomes, utilizing intrinsic motivation to get more positive and continual results. I can readily relate to this study, since I usually start my diets and exercises for the wrong reasons and don 't continue them. This different vision on self-determination, changing the goal to one where it is more for myself than for others, will help me do things for my own benefit. Sometimes there will be obstacles in the way but like the article says there are two types of people the ones that give up and others that look passed what is preventing you from achieving your goal. If motivation is for the right reasons, ones ' self well-being, then one would be determined to continue for a long time without failure, no matter what the circumstance