Why Motivation Is Not a Commodity

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:27.9	Dr. Laura.com.
0:29.9	Last week, in my opening comments, I talked about how motivation is BS. And it's a notion I'd like you all to drop.
0:44.4	It calls all the time, as you hear. If you listen regularly, how do I motivate myself to work out?
0:50.8	How do I motivate myself to not drink, to not smoke? How do I motivate myself to get my
0:56.6	work done? How do I? How do I? How do I? And I contend there is only one way. And it isn't
1:07.6	motivation. It's like this is a commodity that I have to find out where I get it.
1:14.6	Where can I get motivation?
1:18.9	Can I buy it? Can I rent it? Can I steal it?
1:23.4	Can it be in somebody else's hands, you know, where they make me do it, whatever it is?
1:32.5	A lot of you place responsibility for not doing the things you ought to be doing.
1:38.8	You're supposed to be doing. You're committed to doing because you don't feel like it.
1:46.5	So the next question is, where do I get the motivation?
1:50.3	What does that mean?
1:52.2	That means some kind of product, energy, that overcomes feelings.
2:05.6	In general, feelings are the way to failure.
2:09.6	Rational thinking discipline is the way to success.
2:16.6	I don't feel like it. I don't feel like it's right. Rational thinking discipline is the way to success.
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