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All right, buddy, we're back with a brand new mindset and engaged. Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral. All right, buddy, we're back with a brand new mindset and motivation Monday here in the Cabral concept. Looking forward to sharing with you the topic of the week, which is motivation is not something you ever find.

So many of us go after big goals in our life. At least we visualize them. We write them down. We hope that they'll come true. But we're often a little slow in achieving them. One of the reasons is is that we're waiting for the perfect time. The perfect moment, we know that it'll come. We know when we will be ready. And yet that day still hasn't come. Or maybe it's come and it's gone and then you try to start

back up and it's just the motivation isn't there. What I want to share with you is that something

that neuroscience has been teaching us over the past couple decades is this. Is that motivation

is not usually something that you find. It doesn't usually come to you. What you need to do is go after

it. Now I know easier said than done, but there's actually a specific formula.

It's to use this pleasure-based chemical we have in the body called dopamine. But here's the interesting thing.

Dopamine is not necessarily the reward chemical that we think it to be. It's the pursuit chemical.

It's the ambition and drive chemical.

And that gives us so much energy in our life. Here's the interesting thing, though. Dopamine doesn't

come when you've achieved the thing. We all know whenever we've achieved a goal, we're kind of like,

oh, that was great, or we might celebrate.

Maybe we celebrate for a night or maybe even a week. But very rarely do you find yourself celebrating for a year, right? We achieve something, and our minds are really hardwired in order to be

able to then look for the next thing. That is the dopamine. The dopamine is not the reward

at the end. It is the reward of the chase, of the pursuit. And that right there already gives us an

inkling as to how we feel this motivation. Because really, what is motivation? Motivation is the

energy and want to go after your goals.

And we know that the fastest way to achieve that, they want, right, and doing the things that we know that we need to do is by increasing dopamine.

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