029 How to be motivated when you aren’t motivated: Solo Round

Getting ourselves motivated can lead to a lot of internal conversations… “I know I should do it but I don’t feel like it”…. “If I want to hit my goals, I need to do it!”.  It’s stressful and exhausting. So let me ask you…. are you motivated to brush your teeth every morning? No, it’s just something you do, right? There is no internal conflict, no fighting back and forth while you try to make a decision on if you should brush your teeth or not!  What if other decisions could be that simple too?  What if deciding to exercise, or clean the garage or choose something healthy from the menu could be that easy too? A no-brainer decision that you make with ease.   It can be! Listen in to begin to learn how!  And join us inside our free online community at www.TheArtofLivingBig.com to get in on the conversation and learn more! music by bensound .com Save Save Save Transcript: today’s podcast is brought to you by the infinite soul project where you learn how to shift your energy and manifest the change you want in your life. We’re gonna dive into your brain and the scientific reasons why you get more of what you focus on and help you consciously create some miracles for yourself. You can find out more at infinite soul project calm. Welcome to the art of living big. My name is Betsy Pake entrepreneur, author and personal success coach. This is the show that brings you stories and small ideas to help you live a big life. I hope this once a week podcast will inspire you, motivate you and encourage you to think differently about what could be possible for your life. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let’s go live big. Hello, everybody. Happy Monday. All right. So I’ve gotten some messages from people asking me, well, I got a lot of messages asking me all kinds of stuff. So I’m going to start trying to go through those in the next couple weeks. The cool thing is that it’s Valentine’s week this week. And so we’re going to talk about like a little self love, because I feel like a little self love could go a long way in answering all of the questions that I’ve received. So we got some great ones asking about motivation and habits, and how to get along with different people. And so this particular episode, let’s talk about habits. Because this is something that can really affect, like every area of your life, whether it’s work where you feel like you’re struggling, or it’s maybe you’ve fallen down a little bit with your health and fitness, or maybe you just want better habits surrounding your relationships, because really, relationships fall into habits too. And we get into a cycle with things. And when we pop out of a cycle that has served us, it can sort of throw everything off whack, right. And so maybe in, you know, maybe you’ve been working towards, I’ll use myself as an example, I was working towards competing at the Pan American Games. And that wasn’t this past summer, the summer before. And I was really focused, I was super focused for about a year and a half really focused on my health focused on my fitness, maybe almost to the point where I was neglecting some other areas in my life. So I had to pop out of that a little bit. And I had to kind of find some balance. Well, now I’m at a place where I realized that I’ve developed some habits that don’t really support the life that I want. And so now I’m having a look at it and go, okay, it’s all part of the journey. So it’s all right, but now it’s time for me to take a look and say, Okay, we’re have things sort of fallen out of whack. And at the beginning of the year,