What's going on everybody? Welcome back to Mind Over Macrows Podcast. As always, I'm

your host Mike Milner and today this is actually a topic that I was a little iffy if I wanted to talk about it.

I was I got hit with some like inspiration.

I was like oh I need to do a podcast episode about this and then I was like you know what it's

gonna come across as very motivational and if you've been listening to me for

any length of time you know that I'm not a big fan of like the rah rah hap up motivation type stuff. I don't believe in motivation in the sense that a lot of times people ask how do you stay motivated to do this or how do you stay motivated to do that and the

the reality is that motivation is fleeting like any other emotion and it cannot be

relied upon so motivation is not necessary to do the things that you want to do.

The one of the best quotes I ever heard was a guy by the name of Inky Johnson if you've

never heard any of his speeches or listen to him on a

podcast, please do yourself a favor and go search Inky Johnson.

That will actually be more motivational and inspirational, but he talks about the fact that, you know, being committed is staying

true to what you said you were going to do long after the mood that you said you were going to do it in has left you and that has like rung true for me

I think I heard it maybe like seven years ago. It's been a while and I always come back to that

when it's like how do you stay motivated.

I always think about when I commit to something I know that in the moment there's

going to be excitement something new I'm going to be all in I'm going to be all in, I'm going to really be motivated, but that mood is not going to last forever.

And the test of true commitment and discipline is if I can stay true to my word long after that mood has left me.

So I don't care how you show up when everything is going well.

I don't care how you show up when things are all, you know, positive and going well, I care what happens when you don't feel like doing something.

I care what happens when you are going through a lot of shit that's on your plate and you're trying to manage a bunch of stuff and life is you know

throwing all these curveballs at you that's what I care about so I know this is a

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