It’s the cool thing to hate on motivation nowadays. You read Atomic Habit once. Now you’re a thought leader on habit formation and believe that habits are the only thing that matters. You preach that motivation is stupid. It’s not. But you’re skeptical of motivation because you’ve felt motivated before and it didn’t lead to real change. You were motivated to lose weight, eat better, to work out but none of them ever come to fruition.
Sounds like you're talking about extrinsic motivation...essentially. It makes the world go round, but usually at the sacrifice of something equally important to what you're pursuing. I guess that's what sacrifice is...ultimately. Giving up one important thing for another important thing. Driven by fear. I think there's a better way.
I've found that motivation works well enough to get the ball rolling...but for sustainability we have to be intrinsically motivated...or inspired. We have to get to a point where we live in inspiration. Where it's our home. There's no fear in inspiration. I believe this is the realm of innovation, ingenuity...genius.
As a coach, I've found that the people who have the hardest time achieving and maintaining are the people who are pursuing their goals for someone else...family, significant other, or out of fear of disease or illness...an undesirable outcome. There are others who manage things well enough, but with an iron grip...sacrificing health, relationships, freedom...joy.
Sounds like you're talking about extrinsic motivation...essentially. It makes the world go round, but usually at the sacrifice of something equally important to what you're pursuing. I guess that's what sacrifice is...ultimately. Giving up one important thing for another important thing. Driven by fear. I think there's a better way.
I've found that motivation works well enough to get the ball rolling...but for sustainability we have to be intrinsically motivated...or inspired. We have to get to a point where we live in inspiration. Where it's our home. There's no fear in inspiration. I believe this is the realm of innovation, ingenuity...genius.
As a coach, I've found that the people who have the hardest time achieving and maintaining are the people who are pursuing their goals for someone else...family, significant other, or out of fear of disease or illness...an undesirable outcome. There are others who manage things well enough, but with an iron grip...sacrificing health, relationships, freedom...joy.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. ♥️