Typically, I don’t share content from my newsletter anywhere else. Likewise, I don’t share content from my blog to my newsletter, other than a round-up of the blog posts. A weekly newsletter and blog post since January 2019, and you can imagine the sheer quantity of words I have written during that time. I love the theory of repurposing content; however, I’m just not that good at doing it. Lol!
So, when I found myself struggling for content for today’s blog post, I found myself thinking back to this week’s newsletter topic on motivation. I feel like it’s a message for the masses.
While cleaning the fridge recently, my thoughts drifted to motivation. Cleaning out the fridge is something no one else in my home ever finds the motivation to do. Lol! Likely not uncommon in your household as well, if you share your space with others.
Motivation can and will go one of two ways. We are either motivated toward pleasure or away from pain. So, I guess you could say that if pleasure was to the right and pain was to the left, we will usually always take a hard right.
And, this is why, friends, no one else in my home ever cleans the fridge. It’s also why no one else cleans the shower unless I make a deal with one of my kids or spouse (because I really…really dislike cleaning the shower).
It wasn’t until the fridge got bad enough, as in noticeable ick on the back-side and week-old left-overs still inside.
Meet Motivation Half-Way
And, this is exactly how motivation shows up in our lives. There are days where I have to drag myself outside to get in a run. There are nights when I hop on the treadmill at 7:30 PM to move my body because it’s ugly out and, I haven’t gotten any movement in all day because I’ve been stuck behind a computer. And, there are days I get up before 6 am to do Pilates Live because I know if I show up Live, I enjoy it more.
We have to meet motivation half-way. We have to take, even the smallest action, or we risk falling into the same old patterns of behavior. This is how we uplevel our lives. This is how we crawl out of the ruts in which we find ourselves (often mid-life like I had), and this is how we find our way from pain to joy.
A friend once said: “How we do one thing, is how we do everything.”
I think she’s right.
We will never feel motivated to dig into our baggage. Only until we get really sick of looking in the mirror and physically see the pain on our face, or feel the ick building up in our hearts — do we force ourselves to find the motivation to choose differently. Or, unless our backs are up against the wall and we have no choice but to make a move. By not choosing differently we risk staying, with our backs up against the wall, of our own life.
This is not living; it’s fear in your mind winning over the desire in your heart.
We know (and act) upon what needs to be done in our external world. However, when it comes to our internal one, we often need a nudge, a fresh perspective, and more often than not, guided support.
Where, in your life, are you finding it difficult to meet motivation half-way?
If I could wave a magic wand and get you from Point A. to Point B., what action would it take to get to Point B?
How can I support you?
To meeting motivation half-way and going into the second half of 2020 with a resounding “HECK-YEAH” to create your best life!
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