The Ground Unified Theory of Motivation

I think what went through my mind was essentially this thing of like, like, any level exams are six, eight months away. I need some motivation to actually get me to do some work now. So that's step two of so far what I formulated in the ground unified theory of motivation. But there's a third point to this that I wanted to get your take on. And that's the idea of punishment. It becomes easier to motivate ourselves to do stuff because the pain of not doing it exceeds the pain of actually having to do it.