This is after more living daily episode 1741, how to get motivated by Shilin Johnson of

Shilin Johnson.com and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy middle of the week Wednesday if you're listening in real time.

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How to get motivated by Shilin Johnson of Shilin Johnson.com

Today I want to talk about how to get motivated when you're just not feeling it. Whatever it is, I'm going to give you my best tips.

I promise this is going to be the kick butt you need to get yourself back on track. How to get motivated.

So how do you get motivated when you're really just not feeling it and do super high energy incredibly motivated and very driven people ever have bad days?

The answer is yes. I know you're already a really motivated and driven person. Sometimes we don't give ourselves enough credit.

But what I want to give you today are some tips to get your butt in gear on those days when you're just not feeling it.

But you need to get things done. These tips help with weight loss, building your business, repairing a marriage, taking care of teenagers, and raising teenagers.

Set it up.

First thing you have to understand is that in order to be successful, you've got to set yourself up for success.

Don't make it impossible on yourself to succeed. And I know that sounds obvious, but there are so many people who set themselves up for failure because they don't believe that it's even possible.

They put these demands on themselves that are insurmountable.

Brett and I have had the opportunity to coach entrepreneurs. One thing we find really common is that a lot of them put incredible deadlines and expectations on themselves

where it's almost impossible to succeed. There are not enough hours in the day, even if you were to for-go sleep, relationships, and everything else.

So you have to look at first how you're going to set yourself up for success regardless of your objective.

Structure

One of the most important things you can do is make sure that you're set up for success in terms of how you structure your day and organize your time.

If this is important to you, you need to clear something off your schedule that is less important to you, even if it means from time to time letting somebody down.

Now let's talk about accountability.

Accountability works. Accountability is that thing that gets teenagers to show up to a big brick building and study each night and take a test because they're held accountable.

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