Here it is How to Do the Hard Thing When You Have Zero Motivation

You can probably relate to this.

Whenever we set a new goal in life, there is this excitement, this enthusiasm because we've set this new goal that we're really excited about and we show up with gratitude, with excitement towards this new goal, whether it's for the new diet, the new training program, the new work tasks that we have put in place in order for us to reach the goal.

But eventually, at some point, That thing that we show up to do every day feels repetitive.

It starts to feel a little bit boring.

It starts to feel a little bit hard because we're putting in the work without any necessary results yet.

without necessarily having seen any results or things come out of this hard work that we're putting in day in and day out.

You start to feel a little bit more tired.

Maybe people aren't cheering you on as much as they did in the beginning when you were sharing this goal.

And I believe that that is the moment when achieving the goal actually begins.

Everyone can start a new diet, everyone can start a new training program, and everyone can set a really hard goal, but the people who follow through on it all the freaking way till the end, those are the ones who get the results, right? And I think we, in our minds, think that when we start to lose that motivation something's wrong but maybe nothing's wrong in those moments maybe we have just in that moment reached the part where discipline needs to take over we no longer can rely on motivation at that point we have to just show up and do the thing And I think that during that time, that's when the inner battling, the inner negotiation starts happening.

And sometimes it's not actually even the showing up for the thing that's hard, but it's that inner battle, that negotiation that tells you, oh, it would feel so nice to sleep in or drink this alcohol or whatever.

go out with friends or just lay on the couch and watch Netflix.

Oftentimes that's really the hard part because we all know that those inner battles when it comes to showing up for a workout, when our body's tired, that feels really hard.

But once we've warmed up and we're in the workout, most of the time we start feeling into the flow of that workout and then it starts feeling really good.

So the hard part wasn't actually the workout.

It was the negotiation.

The maybe should I do it? Should I not do it? Should I maybe do it tomorrow? Should I maybe do this thing instead.

I'm a little tired.

Today won't matter anyway.

It's just one day.

I'll get back on top of it on Monday or tomorrow.

But here's the thing.

If the workout is on the plan, if the sprint is on the plan, if the work task has a deadline, if you put on your to-do list that you had to clean your house, you no longer have to decide again whether or not to do it you just have to show up and do it and if you could completely eliminate that inner battling that self-talk that's trying to negotiate its way for you to not have to do it the whole path gets so much easier so I'm not gonna today question whether or not I should go to the gym I'm of course going to the gym because it's a part of my plan.

I'm not going to negotiate whether or not I should eat my freaking cucumbers because that's what's on the plan.

I'm just going to eat the cucumbers when I'm hungry because that's just how it is right now.