Poor motivation as blocked action

A lack of motivation is more often derived from confusion and fear than it is from laziness. In my experience, very few people are lazy (which I would define as knowing what you want, how to get it, being unafraid to act and simply not acting.) In general, motivation suffers because we don't know what we want. Or, we know what we want, but we don't know how to get it. Or we know how to get it, but we are afraid to talk to a specific person or make a certain kind of presentation. Any inkling of uncertainty anywhere in the process could block action. The difficult part is that, in general, we don't recognize in ourselves or others where the blockage is!