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Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

191: Why Motivation And Willpower Will Always Fail You (Unless You Do This) with Ted Ryce

Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

Ted Ryce

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8848 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How many time have you said, "I'm not feeling motivated to workout." Or "I'm just not feeling it today." The truth is that expecting motivation to reach a peak level to push you over the edge into taking action is never going to happen. Motivation is fleeting and willpower is finite. Relying on these things will always fail unless you do the strategies that I outline for you in this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of the Legendary Life Podcast. I'm your host Ted Rice, and this is the show that's all about transforming your health, your body, and your life. In today's episode we're going to be covering why motivation and

0:16.8

willpower will always fail you. Before I get to that though I want to give

0:22.3

some shout-outs. The first shout-out is to

0:25.0

Kylie from Down Under, specifically Darwin, Australia, and that was my terrible Australian accent.

0:34.2

So sorry my Australian friends, but that's the best I can do.

0:40.0

Also I want to give out a give a shout out to Cassie who gave me a great podcast review on iTunes.

0:49.4

She said Ted's podcast has helped me improve my life in every way for the last one and a half years

0:56.4

from being stationed in the Middle East to returning home and continuing my fitness career.

1:05.7

The Legendary Life Podcast has been my number one show I listen to. Tagg gives quality information for us to positively

1:11.6

enhance our lives and it's all free.

1:14.8

I'm grateful and appreciative.

1:16.7

Cassie, I'm grateful for you, for your service, for your review,

1:21.5

for connecting with you on Twitter, and then again on Facebook.

1:25.0

It's a pleasure and an honor to be connected with you and

1:30.0

yeah I love connected with people and if we haven't connected, why haven't we connected yet?

1:36.0

I also want to apologize. If I sound a little weird, it's because I am weird. I'm a little sick and I'm doing this episode a bit late

1:46.6

But better late than never I got really sick the past week, actually the past few days,

1:57.0

me having trouble thinking still.

1:59.9

But I was doing really well,

2:01.5

then Gisil was sick for a couple of weeks, but for a week,

2:06.8

and I was making fun of her because I wasn't getting sick.

2:09.2

Then I got some really stressful news that woke me up at 2 a.m. in the morning and I went to bed like at 11 and 3 hours

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