Hi and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This week I want to dig into motivation. You may remember an episode

I did back in February about how to stay motivated when you're just spinning your wheels.

And today I'm going to go deeper into what motivation is and what your brain and body need to stay motivated.

This is very often the case that my weekly check-ins with you listeners are after I've been triggered by something I've seen.

This week is no different.

So a few days ago, I saw an Instagram post which read,

it's not motivation you're lacking. It's accountability. You are motivated towards your goals.

Of course you are. Why wouldn't you be motivated to create the body of your dreams?

What you're missing is the systems, structure and support to keep you on track.

Of course, the next bit of the post was a call to action to download their free ebook,

which would then funnel you into a product you have to pay for.

I get how online marketing works.

In this week's podcast, I'm going to argue that accountability is not the problem.

Explain what motivation is and help you to perhaps reflect on your desires and needs

and sort through them yourself without having to enter an influencer's sales funnel.

So what is motivation?

Well, motivation is the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behavior.

This basic description of motivation in which it encompasses the maintenance of goal-related

behavior has already blown apart the argument

that you need to pay for some accountability system to maintain the path to a goal, because

motivation is goal-driven maintenance. In fact, motivation has three key components. First, activation,

second, persistence, and thirdly, intensity. Activation is the

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