Episode 96: The Key to Motivation
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting |
| 0:07.2 | self betterment into a shot class because let's face it who's got that much time |
| 0:11.4 | these days. I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose. If you're looking for |
| 0:16.8 | more of a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. You don't need motivation, you need a strong why and structure. It's like |
| 0:29.0 | writers block. Seth Gaiden thinks it's completely a myth and I got to agree with him. |
| 0:35.0 | Motivation is fluff. |
| 0:37.0 | I don't think that it's something that it's a real thing that you need to be productive. Now I understand there's days that you don't feel like doing something, right? |
| 0:49.0 | There are days that things come easy and naturally, and there are days that you just want to not do it like I get that but you can't |
| 0:57.2 | depend on motivation for you to go out and build what you want to build whether it's a business or a new relationship or whatever |
| 1:04.9 | it is. If everyone just depends on motivation, nothing will get done, right? |
| 1:13.1 | If it takes you watching motivational videos |
| 1:17.1 | to get up every single day, you're |
| 1:19.7 | going to waste a lot of time on YouTube |
| 1:21.4 | and it's going to become a cop-out. So a lot of people who YouTube and it's going to become a cop out. |
| 1:23.4 | So a lot of people who don't do something because they don't feel the motivation or say |
| 1:27.4 | that you know what I don't feel motivated I'm not going to go work out or I'm not going to |
| 1:30.1 | do this. |
| 1:31.4 | There's something greater happening that's blocking them. It's not |
| 1:34.1 | because they lack motivation. Okay so let's talk about our Y's and let's talk about |
| 1:40.7 | structure. Things happen, things are built by structure, by routines, by rituals, you know, so an example |
| 1:50.3 | is when we want to change our bodies there is a program involved right there is a |
| 1:55.9 | ritual there is a there is a macro which is going to the gym or whatever your |
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