Welcome guys and gals to the Mantox podcast. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of

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Now, with that said, today we are going, like I said, to dive into motivation is killing your

chance to change. This is a really interesting topic. I've had some great recommendations from

people who tune into these midweek mini episodes. By the way, thank you for submitting your

ideas and some of the topics that you would love for me to jam on.

I really appreciate it. Let's just dive into this. This is a request that came in the other day

through somebody through Facebook who had asked me how important motivation is. And if I could

touch on the importance of motivation in terms of change and how we need to motivate ourselves to change.

My belief is that we don't necessarily need to motivate ourselves to change.

Motivation isn't inherently there when we want to change something.

I'll give you a perfect example.

If you all of a sudden want to lose, you know, 15, 20, 25, 30 pounds, and you decide that

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