Speaker 1: Get a on, Sam would and this is your motivational
Speaker 1: moment for this week. And funnily enough, a motivational moment
Speaker 1: for this week is going to be about getting motivated.
Speaker 1: No matter how many questions I get asked, it still
Speaker 1: comes back most of the time from people that are
Speaker 1: strugging to get into shape. Not Sam. What exercise to do?
Speaker 1: Not Sam? What foods to eat? Sam? How do I
Speaker 1: get motivated? Now, there's a truth in the answer, not
Speaker 1: to you know, burst people's bubble, but there is an
Speaker 1: element of truth in the answer that you can't rely
Speaker 1: on motivation or you can't just try and find motivation.
Speaker 1: If that's your secret source of success, then you're doomed.
Speaker 1: And I don't say that like I said, to burst
Speaker 1: your bubble, but there's an element of truth to that
Speaker 1: that there does need to be some action and some
Speaker 1: accountability and some intrinsic motivation come from and within to
Speaker 1: get you long term success by getting into the habits
Speaker 1: that you do over and over again consistently to give
Speaker 1: you the results that you're saying to yourself you want. However,
Speaker 1: there are some really practical little tips that I give
Speaker 1: people that do help them with that day to day
Speaker 1: motivational consistency. Number one is reconnect with your why not
Speaker 1: Why does that person do it? What does that other
Speaker 1: person do it? Why is this so important to me?
Speaker 1: Because I want to be a good role model to
Speaker 1: my children, Because I know if I don't lose weight
Speaker 1: or don't take care of my health, something bad could happen.
Speaker 1: You need to have a powerful, strong why. And equally
Speaker 1: is importantly you need to be connected to it. There's
Speaker 1: no point thinking about it four years ago and then
Speaker 1: putting an air draw somewhere and never revisiting it. You
Speaker 1: need to put it somewhere where it's going to stay
Speaker 1: front and see, and you're going to stay connected to it.
Speaker 1: You're why explains to you why you want to do something.
Speaker 1: The second one self talk. So we've all been there.
Speaker 1: We go to bed, we tell ourselves the night before
Speaker 1: that we're going to wake up, we're going to work
Speaker 1: out when when the sun comes up, when the alarm
Speaker 1: goes off, we can't be by it. Now, there's two
Speaker 1: ways that from a self talk perspective, we can handle
Speaker 1: this situation. We can do it from a negative self
Speaker 1: talk perspective, and that might sound something like if I
Speaker 1: don't get up now I won't work out, and then
Speaker 1: I'll feel bad later. I'll probably feel bad about myself.
Speaker 1: I'll probably end up eating crappy foods because I think
Speaker 1: to myself, I didn't do the workouts, so now what
Speaker 1: I eat doesn't really matter. I'm lazy and motivated. I
Speaker 1: can't do this, and I'm being a bit over the
Speaker 1: top to prove my point. But we all do that
Speaker 1: in a negative self talk way. It's not productive, it's
Speaker 1: not motivating. It actually makes us feel worse. Now we
Speaker 1: can flip the script a little bit here and we
Speaker 1: can do positive self talk, which might sound a bit
Speaker 1: more like this. If I get up now, I know
Speaker 1: it'll be hard, but I know that it'll be worth it.
Speaker 1: I feel energized when I start work. I'll have more clarity,
Speaker 1: I'll have more energy throughout my day, and even though
Speaker 1: I don't really feel like it, it'll get me one step
Speaker 1: closer to where I want to be. And that's a
Speaker 1: connection to that why where I want to be? That
Speaker 1: want to motivation. That simple shift, and it's not that
Speaker 1: drastic changes the focus so that you end up focusing
Speaker 1: on the feeling of something after you've achieved it, rather
Speaker 1: than that motivating self talk of I didn't achieve it,
Speaker 1: or if I didn't achieve it, you're thinking of always
Speaker 1: the negative of not doing something rather than the positive
Speaker 1: of doing something. The third little tip when it comes
Speaker 1: to getting motivated is the rule that I have across
Speaker 1: many things, whether it be prepping food, cooking a meal,
Speaker 1: or getting into a workout, that it's the last thing
Speaker 1: I feel like doing just five minutes getting yourself moving
Speaker 1: or getting yourself active in the kitchen in a healthy
Speaker 1: sense for just five minutes will almost always turn into
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes to an hour. You've just got to get
Speaker 1: the cogs turning for that first five minutes, because that
Speaker 1: is the hardest part. So the three tips that you
Speaker 1: have to write it down for your homework. You have
Speaker 1: to find what you're wiy is. You need to start
Speaker 1: getting into positive self talk. Even write yourself a little script,
Speaker 1: a positive self talk script. If situation X arises, my
Speaker 1: positive self talk script is going to be why. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you keep it in your bedside table
Speaker 1: in the top drawn. You actually physically have to get
Speaker 1: it out and read it out loud. Sounds ridiculous. Get
Speaker 1: in the habit of positive self talk. And the third
Speaker 1: one just five minutes. I promise you those three very
Speaker 1: simple things that take no time at all will improve
Speaker 1: your motivation, game, no end,