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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

#184 If You're Struggling To Stay Motivated, You Need To Listen To This | Impact Theory Q&A

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Business, News Commentary, News

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s often hard to stay motivated, but right now it’s particularly difficult for a lot of people to keep their focus. On this episode of Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu directly answers questions from Moms and Dads, from artists, business owners and recent graduates. He explains how to build and maintain motivation, why boredom can be a tool you use to achieve greatness, how to deal with anxiety, how to balance the needs of your family and your career, and why you need absolute clarity on your goals to be a good leader. This episode is brought to you by: Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive the FREE D3/K2 wellness bundle with your first purchase! Audible: Get 1 credit to pick any title and 2 Audible Originals from a monthly selection. Visit audible.com/impact or text IMPACT to 500-500 Tresta: Start your free 30-day trial at tresta.com/impact SHOW NOTES: Motivation comes in waves, so you need to remember what got you excited at first [0:47] Be honest with yourself about what you really want [3:02] Tom gives advice to artists trying to survive through the lockdown [6:01] Boredom kills most people’s dreams, but you can use boredom to achieve greatness [8:31] Tom discusses meditation, why he meditates, and how it affects him biologically [10:38] Tom talks about what it really means to be a CEO and how to lead people [15:33] Tom explains why you need an optimistic, solution-oriented mindset [17:59] Why you need to have absolute clarity on your goals [20:54] Why you need to go out and fail, learn from it, and still go all in next time [26:11] Tom discusses anxiety and how to deal with it [29:15] How to make the most of the lockdown [30:05] QUOTES: “You don’t find motivation, you build motivation.” [4:11] “Greatness is about doing the things that are tragically boring. And that you have to repeat over and over and over to get better at them, in a deliberate way.” [7:01] “If a win to you is being the greatest Dad and husband of all time, then be the greatest Dad and husband of all time! And if your number two priority is building your business, then it’s in second place. And it’s gonna get what it can get.” [24:54] FOLLOW: WEBSITE: impacttheory.com INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/tombilyeu/ FACEBOOK: facebook.com/tombilyeu/ TWITTER: twitter.com/TomBilyeu

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0:00.0

You're listening to Impact Theory.

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Impact Theory.

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Impact Theory.

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Impact, baby.

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What is up everybody?

0:07.6

Welcome to a very special episode of Impact Theory.

0:10.4

I'm going to be taking your questions today and we're going to be talking about how

0:14.0

to stay motivated even through the most difficult of times.

0:18.0

And this is one of the weirdest times I think any of us have lived through.

0:21.7

And so this is going to be a great opportunity for you guys to hit me with the things that

0:24.9

are pressing on you right now.

0:26.8

And for me to have a chance to see if the things that I think are actually going to help

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you through, I will give you those answers real time.

0:33.0

I actually don't know you guys are going to ask.

0:34.8

So I'm super excited for this.

0:36.1

And for everybody that's sending a video, thank you for submitting those without further

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delay.

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Here we go.

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Question number one.

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Hi Tom, my name is Kyle from Alpdorham.

0:46.1

I'm a business owner.

0:48.9

My question is about exercise.

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