Morale comes from having the nice things in your life correlated with effort. Cooking your own dinner is basically microdosing returns to investing effort: if you put in effort, you eat steak frites with peppercorn sauce. If you don't, you get eat chicken and rice.
Sounds a lot to me like “Selbstwirksamkeit” (German, ≈self-efficacy): The feeling you have when you experience having a (positive) impact on your life/the world after having given an effort.
Sounds a lot to me like “Selbstwirksamkeit” (German, ≈self-efficacy): The feeling you have when you experience having a (positive) impact on your life/the world after having given an effort.