Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, where we help

leaders activate performance, lead through change, and dial burnout all the way down. If your team

or organization is ready to reignite its motivation and drive, I'd love to support you. Shoot me a

note at Rachel at Lead Above Noise.com anytime, and let's talk.

And hey, before we dive into today's episode, can I ask a favor? If you're feeling motivated to share

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Okay, that's my plug.

And now, speaking of feeling motivated, like, are you these days, in general?

It feels like I'm seeing people around me climb through sludge,

like they're just operating at a lower frequency.

And it's feeling harder and harder to just lean in and be productive and do the thing.

Are you feeling this at all or seeing it around you?

This dip in motivation.

If so, let's try to resist the urge just for today to judge it.

We try to push through it or blame ourselves or our schedule or our inbox or our willpower. But what if the dip is actually just trying to tell us something?

Sometimes a lack of motivation is actually a signal that something needs our attention.

So today, let's talk about ways to decode that signal, to move into curiosity over judgment.

Let's talk about four of the most common scenarios I'm seeing and some ways you might combat it if one of these feels like I'm talking to you.

The first one is, honestly, I just don't care that much about this work.

Do you ever have that moment where you're staring at a task and your brain is like a hard pass? You're not lazy and you're not broken.

You might just be missing a bleep to give in that moment. It can happen when the thing you're

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