Motivation: Or Why Don’t I Want To Do This?

Motivation Is Fleeting

I’ve already reached it with the blog posts. I don’t want to write this one. I have no idea what to write. I've been up since 445a, coached 5 in-person sessions, worked out, went grocery shopping, and had a snack. I’m tired. I’ve got some other work to finish up, and this was a task for me to do. And I just don’t want to. I could have skipped my workout. But I didn’t, I could have left work an hour earlier. But I knew I needed to get the workout in before I left.

Motivation is a fleeting thing. Look around at enough coaching pages and you’ll find a post like this. We as coaches will be told by potential, and current, clients that they are hiring us to motivate them. I don’t always burst the bubble right away to tell them, I genuinely can’t do that. You have to show up even when you don’t want. Especially when you don’t want to. Maybe hiring me is your motivation because you’ll lose a bit of money if you don’t show or you don’t work out. But that’s still not my motivating the client. That’s their calculation of loss versus flaking. Nothing I’m doing. I’m either still at the gym or at home programming for clients anyway.

Showing up when you don’t want to allows you to build that momentum you’re looking for and then you continue the habit. Writing this even when i really don’t want to (And eventually recording a reel I don’t have any ideas for.) is showing up for myself and continuing a habit I’m trying to build.

No one can motivate you but you. And motivation will come and go. What will you do when it leaves? That determines how committed you are.