This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I've spent some time in this space talking about ways in which we can achieve our

goals, ways in which we can gain financial independence and self-sufficiency and

agency, but I want to go all the way back to talk about what motivates us

to even accomplish the things that we want to.

I was reading a piece in Forbes magazine that talked about motivation and the science of it and there's actually studies done

on what motivates us to do the things that we do. So I'm going to spend a couple of

podcasts talking about that

I want to achieve, whether we're talking about weight loss, whether we're talking about saving money,

starting a business, what is holding me back

from doing the things I want to do?

You have to ask yourself that question first.

And what I've found in the study is, the first thing

is most people are not motivated to do things

that they feel they have to do.

If you feel like you have to do something,

you're less motivated to get out there and do it.

Very few things create resistance

as effectively as being forced to do something.

Sometimes you may not even want to do the things you usually enjoy because you feel like you have to do them.

I can remember growing up my mother on Saturday mornings were coming to my room 7 a.m. at least that's the way I remember it was 7 a.m.

She would pull my blinds up so that the sun would come bursting into the room and tell me to get up and clean the house.

And you gotta make up your bed.

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