323: How to Take Action When You Don't Feel Like It

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

No matter who you are, what you do, or what your goals are, there are probably things in your life that you would benefit from doing that you'd prefer not to do. Today, I really didn't want to go for a run – nor record this podcast – and yet I did both.

So, how can you get yourself to do the things you need to do, even when you don't have the drive, motivation, or energy to do them? When you lose your motivation, you need to get tactical. It's time to implement concrete strategies to reframe the situation and recapture your momentum.

Inspired by my experience this morning, I've decided to use today's episode to explore this further and help answer the crucial question: how do you get yourself to take action and do the things you know you need to do, even when you don't feel like doing them?

KEY TAKEAWAYS

How objects, challenges, setbacks, defeats, and failures squash the goal achieving mindset - and what to do when the infatuation period wears off after you've adopted a new habit.
What my Cutco sales manager said to me when I told him I wasn't feeling motivated - and how this reality check empowered me to take responsibility for my feelings.
How to reframe taking action and doing the things you don't want to do in your daily practice.
Why making change is more like turning up a thermostat than flipping a switch - and how to condition your mindset over an extended period of time.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready, here we go. Gold achievers, welcome to the Achiever Growth Podcast, it's Hal Elrod and it's May, what is today, May 11th, the day I'm
0:47.8	recording this you'll probably hear it in a couple days. I have a confession to
0:51.7	make we're gonna start out just right away up front,
0:54.4	confession, transparency. I do not want to record this podcast right now.
0:59.8	Nope, don't want to, don't feel like it. In fact, I've been sitting here for 15, 16 minutes going,
1:07.0	just procrastinating. I was on my phone, playing, I was checking social media, and was thinking trying to figure out how to get myself to record a
1:16.2	podcast that I just I'm just not feeling it today in fact this morning I didn't feel like going for a run
1:20.0	it's one of those days you know one of those days but here what's interesting. I didn't feel like going for a run this morning. No energy no motivation
1:26.4	But I went for a run right now. I don't feel like recording this podcast, but I'm recording the podcast
1:32.2	So like I didn't even know what I was going to talk about and then I go you know what why don't I talk about how to get yourself to do what you know you should do and when I should, I mean what would benefit you or what you've
1:45.4	committed to do or what you know in your heart is what is for your highest good.
1:52.6	So when I say should, that's a loaded word.
1:54.8	But that's what I mean is what would be,
1:57.1	what you feel would be beneficial for you,
1:58.9	but you don't feel like it, right?
2:00.5	You ever have that happen?
2:02.1	You don't feel motivated, you don't feel inspired, you don't feel energized, but there's stuff you got to do. There's stuff that you wanted to do at the moment you set that goal, that you made that commitment, that you set that intention, right?
2:15.9	You wanted to do it when you were in that space, in that mental and emotional state, but then when it comes
2:21.9	time to do it, that mental and emotional state may have left you.
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