Welcome to the Shaline show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author celebrity fitness trainer and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Today I want to talk to you about a topic that I recently asked you on my Facebook page

what could be most meaningful and helpful to you and I heard from many of you

that it is getting your motivation back. So today I want to talk to you about how to get your motivation back and

it doesn't matter what it is we're talking about there are times when we know we need to do something whether it's the motivation to

organize your closet the motivation to get back into your fitness routine.

The area where you need to get your mojo back the area where you need to get focused and get motivated on isn't interesting

that all of you no matter where you are the thing you need to work on is something that is for you.

Fitness, nutrition, sleep,

your relationships, your family, being a better mom, being a better dad, all of these things are things we do for ourselves.

They're things that we put everything else first and then we wonder why we've lost motivation in the areas that

we'll probably have the biggest impact on how we feel, how we feel about ourselves.

Think about it. Let's just start with the most obvious one which is fitness and nutrition.

When our nutrition is right and when we're exercising on a regular basis, how do we feel about ourselves?

I don't know about you, but I feel amazing. I feel more confident. I feel sexier. I feel thinner.

Even if I don't get on the scale, I still feel like I must be thinner. I must be stronger.

There were a couple of days last week where I couldn't exercise because I had a dental procedure done.

Like when am I not at the dentist FYI?

Anyways, I had a dental procedure so there were a couple of days where I couldn't exercise or I wasn't supposed to exercise.

And wow, man, I was in a funk.

I felt like a big blob. I felt depressed. I mean, not clinically depressed, but I felt bummed.

I wasn't as good of a mood and I didn't have energy.

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