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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

355 - Why Motivation Isn’t Enough

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share a talk I gave on why motivation isn’t enough and why you NEED to find your REASON for doing something. 

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Key Quotes:

“Motivation will fail you when you need it most”

Transcript

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0:00.0

In this is a talk I recently gave on why motivation is just not enough.

0:10.2

Get excited because this is tiny leaps

0:21.4

Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big Changes where I share simple strategies

0:27.9

you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode I want to break down or just rather share a talk I recently gave so I was invited to speak at a scholarship ceremony up in my hometown for recent high school

0:48.9

graduates who are continuing college who are children of immigrants or immigrants themselves.

0:55.0

And the reason I got this opportunity was because I published my book and somebody who was in charge at that organization or who works with that organization found it at the local library and they

1:09.4

happened to know my dad which was a really interesting turn of events.

1:14.2

They met him early in his time here when he first came up,

1:19.5

honestly before me and my family even came up.

1:24.3

And they contacted me and just said,

1:26.3

hey, would you be willing to come to this event

1:29.0

for children of immigrants and just share your story,

1:31.6

share your experience so far and hopefully motivate them.

1:36.0

And I came into it with this idea that motivation is good but they're plenty motivated.

1:42.0

I've never met an immigrant to the is good, but they're plenty motivated.

1:42.7

I've never met an immigrant to this country who is not motivated.

1:48.0

It just takes so much to deal with the struggles of everyday life that you kind of have to be motivated right?

1:54.8

So I wanted to go in and present a unique idea that motivation actually wasn't enough

2:02.0

and in the talk I reveal what I think you should be pursuing instead.

2:07.2

So with that said, I'm gonna roll the clip

2:09.1

and then we will be back to sort of wrap up afterwards.

2:13.0

Let's do it. Can you guys hear me okay? Everybody? Awesome. So I was asked to come here and

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