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#157 - Get more motivation & willpower - with Michelle Segar

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Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do you get more willpower and motivation? What stops us from sticking to our plans, and do the things we need to to be successful? What is willpower? What is motivation? How do we find meaning in what we do? How do we set short term and long term goals, and stick to them? How beneficial is self-talk? Are you mindful about your choices? Is just 'turning up' half the battle won? Michelle Segar, Phd joins me on the show to discuss her work on how we think and the choices we make. She also has a book 'No Sweat' available now on Amazon.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio episode number 157 if my brain

0:06.7

cellulos served me properly. Now, you know, we've been with you guys for a long time, me and Rachel, me and Anna, various different

0:16.0

guests and we've talked a lot about the nuts and bolts of training, nutrition, life progression, all that kind of stuff, and all that is brilliant.

0:25.0

And as of recent, hopefully you've noticed we've taken a bit more of a tangent.

0:28.8

We've started to talk about the mental aspects of progression a bit more, our psychology, how we view our body,

0:35.3

how we package this stuff mentally and where we're moving with it all.

0:38.6

Because ultimately all this health and fitness information is useless unless you can package it and use it yourself and know why you're going to do it. So it's very much

0:47.4

psychology and mindset that I definitely personally want to tap into a bit more

0:51.5

because I think it's going to help you.

0:53.0

Now I have an incredible guest on the show today,

0:56.0

it's an Amazon bestseller.

0:58.0

That basically means she's way brainier than I am.

1:01.0

She has a PhD and I'm just a guy in a cottage talking rubbish about

1:06.4

nutrition so we'll pick her brain and we'll get some really juicy stuff

1:10.5

um hello Michelle Seiger welcome to the show.

1:14.0

Thank you, it's great to be here.

1:16.0

Now have I said your name correctly?

1:18.0

Yes.

1:19.0

Good. I like to check because I can anger a guest very quickly by butchering a name.

1:24.8

So I have to check. Now give the guess a quick little who's Michelle or should I say I should probably say Dr. Seeger, right?

1:36.8

You can call me Michelle that's fine. Give me a little rundown. Tell people who you are what got you into the work you're doing

1:45.3

right now because I can imagine there's a bit of a personal story behind it as well which people

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