You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 316.

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.

We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.

No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.

Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.

Hey everybody, welcome back. We're talking about motivation today.

It's something that I've been thinking about a lot with people that I am working with inside the Take a Break membership.

One of the things that I really want people to learn the skill of is how do I keep motivation going even when things are not unfolding the way that I want them to.

This is huge because what happens for so many of us, we try to change our drinking and we start out with a lot of motivation.

We are really determined. We have a lot of good reasons for why we want to do this work.

And then maybe we get some success under our belt. Maybe after day one, we slip up.

But at some point, it doesn't matter if it's day one, it doesn't matter if it's day 100.

At some point, you are going to have a moment where you're given. Maybe where you're sick of saying no.

Maybe you tell yourself, I don't feel like being good anymore.

And then what do you do in those moments? How do you stay motivated?

And I think a lot of times what happens is we fall into this trap of, well, I should just know better.

Even though we have these thoughts of, I'm sick of saying no, or I don't want to restrict myself. I don't want to limit myself to one drink.

I'm tired of being good all the time. I'm tired of having to think about this. So we fall into the trap of telling ourselves that we should know better.

Or believing that motivation has just left us.

And one of the most powerful things I think about the Think Philax cycle is that I now understand that motivation is not something that just happens to me.

This is what I thought for the longest time. Sometimes I felt motivated. Sometimes I didn't feel motivated.

I didn't really understand why because I didn't understand the idea that how I was feeling, whether or not I was motivated or unmotivated, didn't just happen to me.

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