Are you an innie or an outie?

Nita Sweeney
4 min readMar 31, 2024

The framework that freed me from motivation guilt.

A printed manuscript scrawled with notes. A pair of glasses and a coffee mug.

Not belly buttons. Motivation.

People who are internally motivated get things done by deciding they are going to do them. Their drive to act comes from within. Those are the “innies.” They are most prized in our culture, held up as a standard. I envy them.

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Nita Sweeney

Bestselling author of A Daily Dose of NOW, Depression Hates a Moving Target and other books. Runner, mindful reality coach, mental health warrior, dog mom.