#515 – How to Regain Motivation
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We’re back! In this episode, I’m sharing what it really looks like to start again after a long break – and why it’s often harder than we think. Whether it’s picking up a creative project, getting back into your Bible reading routine, or returning to something you’ve put off for too long, starting again can feel overwhelming. But here’s the truth: you don’t need perfect conditions to begin. You just need to take that first small step.
Let’s have a chat about overcoming guilt, pushing past perfectionism, and breaking the cycle of procrastination. I’ll also give you practical ways to get moving again and remind you that you’re not alone in the struggle.
If you’ve been stuck or waiting for the “right time,” this episode is for you.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Embrace imperfect starts
- Release guilt and pressure
- Take small, consistent steps
Related Resources
- Are you struggling to start due to needing to make a difficult decision? Take a listen to this podcast episode.
- You have the freedom to pivot, even if it means starting over. Check out this conversation with Melody Alisa.
- You have everything you need to start. You just need to build on what you already know.
- Listen to Bianca Olthoff share how obedience to God has given her the power of grit.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes it's just hard to restart. Sometimes it's just hard to get going again. Sometimes you take a break and the break goes a little longer than what you anticipated. That sounds like me. I was just going to take a short break a few weeks, maybe a month, but here we are, |
| 0:23.2 | and my break has lasted longer than expected. Not because I've not wanted to start again, |
| 0:28.6 | but y'all starting again sometimes is hard. It's hard when you've come to a pause or a halt to get the engines flowing again. I have over 500 |
| 0:43.1 | podcasts. I've been podcasting audio first, then video, for over 10 years. I have a whole content |
| 0:51.6 | creation system. A video goes out. The podcast show notes get written. The audio gets cut from that. The cover graphics get made. The B-roll is added. The music on the front. But it seems like you ought to just be able to get that going again, but something about this has felt hard. |
| 1:12.9 | Maybe you're not creating content, but maybe there's something else for you that has felt hard. |
| 1:19.7 | Maybe it's exercise or maybe it's getting your prayer life together. |
| 1:25.0 | Maybe it's your financial discipline. |
| 1:26.9 | Maybe it's a writing project. Maybe it's |
| 1:28.7 | some routine. And you press pause. Maybe you took a break. Maybe it was cold outside. Maybe you went |
| 1:36.6 | on vacation or you had a project at work. Maybe something shifted in your life and you gave |
| 1:41.8 | yourself permission to take a break. But getting back to your rhythm, restarting your rhythm has just seemed hard. |
| 1:50.6 | Something about restarting has just seemed heavy. |
| 1:54.4 | So here's the good thing. |
| 1:56.6 | Momentum is a great helper when you're in motion. |
| 2:07.1 | But creating momentum, sometimes we have to restart our engines in order to do that. |
| 2:09.1 | And I want to talk about that today. |
| 2:16.5 | I want to talk about rest and why it's good and restarting and why it's hard and what you can do about that, what you should do to rebuild momentum |
| 2:19.7 | for your life in a way that lasts. If you're new here, my name is Crystal Evanshurst and |
| 2:25.8 | normally I've got music playing and I've got a little opener and normally I would have |
| 2:33.4 | B-roll and some lower thirds and yeah I'm not doing that |
| 2:39.4 | because sometimes in order to restart you just have to restart. So this is me restarting |
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