Momentum That Sparks Motivation - SPARTAN MIND ep. 017
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
We often wait to get started on projects or activities until we are motivated. But the 'I'll start when I'm motivated' is leaving us stuck and stagnant. That's because it's momentum that builds motivation - not being still. Stillness stifles. Momentum motivates. Once you get going on your next project or new activity the motivation that you've been looking for will build as you grow the muscle of your work.
LESSONS:
Stillness stifles. Momentum motivates.
Don't wait on getting motivated to get moving. Your movement will grow the motivation.
Start anywhere and keep pushing onward.
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Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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| 0:00.0 | Do you need help getting motivated? |
| 0:02.0 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up podcast family. |
| 0:12.0 | So today we're talking about getting motivated. |
| 0:15.2 | So one of the things that I observe, |
| 0:17.4 | both in my office and out in the world, |
| 0:19.5 | is that people get stuck with this concept of motivation. They believe that they need to start a |
| 0:25.0 | project or start an activity when they're motivated. The problem with that is that momentum |
| 0:32.1 | actually builds motivation, right? We don't just all of a sudden feel it. |
| 0:36.0 | Sometimes we do, and if you're one of the lucky ones out there, great. But oftentimes people actually just feel sort of stuck, right? |
| 0:43.4 | And they need to get that motivation from somewhere. |
| 0:46.6 | But where you don't understand, the best place to get it, actually, is through momentum. |
| 0:51.0 | Is through actually starting somewhere building momentum and then that |
| 0:54.4 | motivation builds okay stillness stifles right so just sitting still not doing |
| 1:00.8 | anything waiting for motivation to come isn't going to get you going. |
| 1:04.1 | Okay? So momentum actually builds motivation. |
| 1:07.1 | So think about what activity you might have coming up, what goal you might have in your |
| 1:11.5 | own work or in your relationships or anything of that |
| 1:14.1 | nature and are you waiting to get motivated in order to start or could you start |
| 1:20.8 | right now today doing something that's going to build up that |
| 1:24.4 | momentum to get you motivated. So remember that again. Momentum motivates and |
| 1:29.7 | stillness stifles and that's one way to get motivated. If you like what you hear |
| 1:35.1 | spread the word. Tell your friends, subscribe and review on iTunes or comment on |
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