How to Motivate Yourself: Leverage Dopamine & Overcome Your Excuses

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to know the surprising truth about motivation? Right now, think about something you want to change or improve. How do you make lasting and powerful changes and life improvements? And how do you keep going even when you don’t have the motivation to do it? If change was easy, we’d all have six-pack abs and a million dollars in the bank. And that’s where this episode comes in: Mel is here to teach you the HOW. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to self-motivate so you can take action. What dopamine is and how it’s linked to motivation. The simple steps you can take today to tap back into your internal drive. The 2 truths about motivation that you are forgetting. The research-backed reason you continue, initiate, or quit something. What to do when someone you love is losing motivation. The real reason you cannot motivate others. How to cope with not getting something you have been working towards. How to navigate feeling “behind” or in a “comparison game”. How to pick yourself back up when you feel like life’s punched you in the face. The first (and most important) step in understanding what drives your motivation. One powerful question to ask yourself when you feel “stuck”. What role dreams and goals play (and it’s not always to achieve them). How to hack the moment of hesitation we all feel. The most powerful reframe you need about failing. How to get clear about the direction you are going in without wandering aimlessly. Mel’s 5-second rule that will move you towards action (even when you are not motivated). This episode comes with a 29-page companion workbook. This workbook is designed using the latest research to help you get clear about what you want and empower you to take the next step forward in your life. And the cool part? It takes less than a minute for you to get your hands on it. Just sign up at melrobbins.com/bestyear. Watch the episodes on YouTube: https://bit.ly/45OWCNr Check out Mel’s book, The High 5 Habit: https://a.co/d/g1DQ8Pt Follow Mel: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QfG8bb The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/49bg4GP LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/46Mh0QB TikTok: https://bit.ly/46Kpw2v Sign up for my newsletter: https://bit.ly/46PVnPs Want more resources? Go to the podcast page here. Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:04.1	Thank you so much for being here today.
0:10.4	I'm so excited to talk to you. I have been dying to talk to you about a particular topic.
0:15.4	What is that topic? Self-motivation. And the thing about self-motivation is that it's something we all want, but it's something that we don't really understand. I mean, I'm sure that you may be thinking about things that you want to improve or change in your life.
0:33.1	It's the time of year where everybody's doing it.
0:35.3	It's time of year where businesses are planning big changes.
0:38.2	People are thinking about what they want in the next year.
0:41.8	And so no matter when you're listening to this, I know that the
0:45.1	story I'm about to tell you and the things I'm about to teach you about self-motivation are
0:49.2	really going to help you. Because the fact is there are two truths about self motivation that are essential for you to
0:55.6	understand if you want to be able to hack motivation when you need it.
1:01.1	Because here's the thing. You know when you're busy making plans or setting goals or deciding kind of what you
1:07.8	want to go do you feel really motivated don't you but have you ever noticed that life has this funny way of taking the wind right out of the sales as soon as you really need the motivation? It's like, boom, no wind, you're not going anywhere.
1:25.2	And I have a personal story to tell you because this
1:29.8	is exactly what's happening in my life right now.
1:32.4	I got home a couple days ago we were
1:34.6	taping a bunch of episodes down in our brand new studios in Boston it was super
1:38.8	cool right now I am up above our garage and our little studio in southern Vermont and when I got
1:45.0	home a couple days ago our son Oakley was about to hear back from his top
1:50.9	choice for college. He, like so many kids, applied early decision,
1:56.0	which means if the college accepts him, he is going to agree to go. It's like a binding
2:00.9	contract. And this particular school that he had applied to is going to let all the kids who had applied early decision know, and they were going to let them know by announcing the decision in an online portal at 8 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday.
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