Why Your Standards Matter More Than Your Motivation...

So one minute you might watch a film.

I remember back in the day when I watched Rocky IV, I think it was, with, uh, Ivan Drago, the, the Russian guy who's like 6'4" with blonde hair and he's this absolute beast.

And I remember watching that film and seeing Sylvester Stallone train to fight him, and seeing what Ivan, I think he was called Ivan Drago, um, what he was doing.

I remember after that film where I was, like, motivated beyond belief.

I remember I started going on runs.

I remember I started boxing.

Um, I got, like, a punch bag put up in my dad's gym.

I was boxing, I was doing training.

I was re- like, every day I was training for two, three hours for about two weeks.

And then I remember that motivation just slowly started to fade.

I was like, "Oh, I'm not, I haven't got that same buzz.

Where's it gone? How do I...

How have I gone from feeling like this to now feeling like this?" And usually motivation is at its highest when you start something new.

So you might say, "Right, I'm gonna get in shape.

It's January, I've eaten way too much crap over Christmas.

I'm motivated that I don't need to eat any more sugar.

I'm sick of sugar.

I wanna start looking after myself.

I wanna be in really good shape." And all of a sudden your motivation is really high, and it goes high.

But then all of a sudden, sleep maybe starts to suffer.

Stress maybe start, you know, life, things start to get in.

Work, you know, the weather, maybe it's a little bit darker in January or the, just the weather.

Your mood, your confidence.

Maybe you put in work for a couple of weeks and you maybe, yeah, you're a little bit lighter, but you can't really see visible changes.

Then all of a sudden, that motivation, it almost goes the opposite way and it completely demotivates you.