#223 - Building Internal Motivation
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 ā¢ 739 Ratings
šļø 10 December 2018
ā±ļø 68 minutes
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Summary
External motivation can help in the moment, but lasting change comes from discovering real belief in yourself and your path. It's not easy or clear, but once you figure out how to do things for yourself and recognize results, the hard stuff gets easier. Use external stimulation as a spark, and internal motivation as the fire.Ā
Topics:Ā
- Learning How To FinishĀ
- You Become what you consistently tell yourself
- How is your motivation distributed?
- Creating Authentic Internal MotivationĀ
- Having The Confidence To Stick With It
- Ordinary is UnderratedĀ
- Finding Motivation from Going Slow
- Strength and Power Through Restraint
- Looking at the entire body of training work
- Learning from Failure
- Stopping The Negative Self-Talk
- Why Shortcuts Usually Backfire
- The Reality Behind Getting to Kona
- What Season of Life Are You In?
- Challenge To the Closed Facebook Group
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning to you. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm asking in the glow of one of my finer sports weekends as a fan. |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, God. |
| 0:20.6 | Here we go. Well, God, here we go. |
| 0:21.8 | Well, it's not my fault. |
| 0:22.9 | You guys lost to Marquette. |
| 0:24.4 | We lost our biggest rivalry, |
| 0:26.5 | and you guys beat number one team in the country. |
| 0:29.2 | Man, talk about a... |
| 0:31.3 | And listen, not only did I get to watch the game, |
| 0:35.2 | I got to watch it uninterrupted |
| 0:37.4 | as Hayden had a PR nap of like over three and a half hours. |
| 0:45.2 | It was, it was insane. And that was coming on the heels of my much maligned, always underachieving, mediocre for decades, Miami Dolphins, pulling off a |
| 0:57.2 | probably once in a lifetime beating of the New England Patriots on the last second, like, |
| 1:05.2 | triple lateral. So, yeah, all in all, it was, I mean, it was great, but it was really awesome watching Tennessee beat Gonzaga because, you know, I think we see this with athletes and stuff too. |
| 1:16.7 | Like, you see somebody and you're like, you're not like, normally you would have caved or balked or come up short. |
| 1:24.5 | And then you kind of watch them like totally evolve into something it doesn't even look |
| 1:29.5 | close that doesn't even like closely resemble the way they used to look and that was what I was |
| 1:36.2 | watching with Tennessee I mean I could definitely see it last year obviously because under Rick Barnes |
| 1:41.3 | we've gotten a lot better but we we would have always lost |
| 1:44.6 | that game always if it was close thing I mean we we got a rebound we were up three uh and like |
| 1:52.1 | one of our fell on our fell on two other guys and got called for a travel and got so I got the ball back |
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