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