329. Why Waiting for Motivation Keeps You Stuck
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever told yourself, “I'll do it when I feel motivated?”
Maybe it's about going through your person's belongings. Maybe it's about getting back to exercise. Maybe it's about making those difficult financial decisions. Here's the truth: If you're waiting to feel motivated before taking action, you might be waiting a very long time.
Tune in this week to learn the importance of understanding the difference between motivation and commitment. You’ll hear why motivation isn't the spark that starts the fire (and what really is), and practical tools to take action even when you don't feel like it. If you've been waiting to feel "ready" or "motivated" before making changes in your life, this episode is for you.
Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/329
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 329, why waiting for motivation keeps you stuck. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to. |
| 0:24.2 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. How are you? Things are going well here. |
| 0:39.3 | It is cooling off, which has been absolutely wonderful after a very hot first half of August. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm recording this at the very end of August, but it's unusually cool here and rainy, which I love. |
| 0:51.3 | I am missing my daughter, who is in Prague for this semester. It's going well. Lots of growth |
| 0:57.8 | opportunities. She is working with study abroad students. I know it's hard work for her, but I think she's |
| 1:03.0 | having fun and there's a lot of growing happening, which is fun to watch from a distance. I will go |
| 1:07.6 | and see her, hopefully in December. And then my youngest is enjoying semester number one |
| 1:12.7 | at our local university, Go Shocks, living at home, getting involved on campus, and just figuring |
| 1:19.2 | out how to navigate college, studying, and campus life and all of that. It's also really nice that |
| 1:25.6 | our new house is only 10 minutes away from campus |
| 1:27.5 | because it's a very short drive. And it's kind of fun to be close to all the action, not just on campus, |
| 1:32.3 | but just generally speaking or closer to the center of the city, which is different. I haven't |
| 1:37.5 | really ever lived this close to where everything is happening, which is kind of nice. So things are |
| 1:41.9 | going well. So I hope things are going well for you, too. |
| 1:45.1 | So in today's episode, I want to talk about why waiting for motivation keeps you stuck. |
| 1:50.9 | And I want you to really hear me on this because it comes up everywhere, small daily tasks and |
| 1:56.8 | big life decisions. So here's what I have seen. Motivation is not nearly as important as we have |
| 2:04.7 | been taught to think that it is. And it is definitely not something we want to consider as the |
| 2:10.1 | starting point. So your primitive brain is designed to do three things really, really well. |
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