874 - Sharing your story (why we all need to)

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.2 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Sharing our personal experiences can have profound effects on others. One such effect is motivating them to take the kind of action that eventually leads to positive changes in their lives. It's really easy to say that people should just get motivated, it's even easier to tell them they need to go watch a motivational video or read a book, but the reality is it doesn't work that way.

There are a number of things that contribute to an individual becoming motivated or losing motivation, but one of the most consistent ways to increase motivation is to borrow it from others. By sharing your story and journey, whether good or bad, you give people a valuable tool to help them manage their own motivation so that they can take the actions they need to.

In addition to helping others navigate their motivation, it's also a great way to show that no one is ever truly alone. Whether we want to admit it or not, feeling like we are alone can make a common (yet no less frustrating) experience feel much much worse. By creating a culture of opening up about our situations, it allows others to recognize that their circumstances aren't as unique or strange as they may seem. This can boost confidence and self-esteem, allowing people to better tackle the challenges they face.

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0:00.0	So today I want to talk about sharing our journey, why it's something that I think we need to be doing more often.
0:08.8	I think it needs to become a bigger part of our culture.
0:12.4	Just like sharing our personal experiences, the things that we are learning along the way,
0:17.0	the ways that we failed, the ways that we've succeeded,
0:20.0	and really trying to create a culture of learning from each other. There is a number of
0:24.6	reasons why this is important and I'm going to talk about them in today's
0:28.1	episode. So the first big reason why this is something I think we need to be doing more of is that it allows us to borrow motivation from each other.
0:45.8	Like, okay, so sharing our personal experiences, it can have this like massive, profound
0:51.0	effect on other people and on ourselves.
0:54.0	It's not just this like one-way thing where we are giving giving giving
0:58.0	it has effects that are beneficial to us as well,
1:01.0	but it is massively helpful for other people and one of the ways that it is
1:05.9	is being able to help them take the kind of action that inevitably leads to positive change.
1:12.4	I talk about on this show all the time like
1:14.6	change comes from action change comes from putting in the work and doing something different
1:20.5	than you've already done but it's really difficult to find the motivation to make
1:26.2	that change, to take that action and to do it consistently.
1:30.8	By creating this culture where we are able to learn from one another where we're able to share with each other's journeys and experience each other's journeys, we also create a situation where our positive change, our positive action inspires other people and motivates other people to create that kind of change for themselves as well. Now it's really easy, this is one of the things
1:56.3	I have a problem with when it comes to personal development, it's really easy to tell somebody
2:01.0	like, oh, you just need to go get motivated motivated you just need to show up and do it you just
2:05.5	need to watch a video and and get hyped up and ready to go you just need to want it bad enough it's
2:10.8	really easy to say these things and then to walk away and if they don't do it it's their fault.
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