How to Stay Motivated
No one is always motivated, and if they are, they’re insane… or they have the tricks I’m about to teach you.
Completing daily or weekly rehab can be annoying, time consuming, and downright just not fun. So, how do you continue to push past the feelings of avoidance?
FIND YOUR WHY!!!
Now, I must admit that this was taught to me in my online business course and it keeps me on track everyday by doing one thing to move me toward my deepest reasoning. It is truly amazing how well this works to help move you forward toward your goal.
What you do is find the most basic reasoning for why you want to do something. Think of your immediate answer. Then you’re going to ask ‘why’ to that immediate answer, and answer it. You’re going to ask ‘why’ to that next answer, and answer that. Do this for five why’s. The reason you want to ask why so many times is because it gets to the real reasoning behind a goal, that reason that lights a fire inside of you and gets you excited. Let’s take an example from one of my clients:
I need to see someone about my back pain.
Why?
It’s stopping me from being able to move well and do things.
Why do you want to move well and do things?
I am retired and I want to go to “live at 5” concerts with my wife and have quality time with her.
BAM.
That was only 3 why’s. Imagine if we kept going for 5, or 7! It’s much easier to do this by yourself to get the 5 why’s. Get to 7 why’s if you need to, until you write something down that gets you so excited you jump out of your chair and scream “I have to get started, now!”
This, is how you continue to do those daily annoyances. Finding that deep rooted reasoning behind your goals is what will help create MOVEMENT.
Use this technique for anything and everything. It doesn’t have to be a gym or movement goal, it can be a relationship goal, a career goal, a travel goal. But at the end of your ‘why’s’ you should notice a common theme, that one notion that pushes you forward. Use it. Write it down and put it on your bathroom mirror so every morning when you brush your teeth, you’re reminded of what ignites you and moves you toward your goals each day.
