What Motivates You?
Where the hell is Spring?! Yesterday was gorgeous — 60–65 degrees, and not a cloud in the sky. I went on a run in the evening, and it was STILL warm enough at 6:30 at night to chill out on my terrace. Now, it’s 32 degrees and SNOWING. WHAT THE FUCK?!
Anyhow, today I wanted to chat about what motivates YOU! Obviously, this differs from person-to-person, and may even change as you enter different phases of your life.
For instance, when I started my weight loss journey in my early teens, I initially was using past bullying and indiscretions by classmates, friends and even family, to motivate me to get into better shape than they ever were, and thus throw it back in their faces! Once I got there, I changed tunes, and now do it because A) My family on both sides is riddled with life-threatening diseases that I want no part of as I get older, and B) If you wanted to hire me and I showed up out-of-shape and overweight, let’s just say my credibility would be slim-to-none…
For you, your motivation may be your kids. You may have children, and I’m assuming you want to be there to watch them grow up, graduate college (should they decide to go), have kids, and know that they’ve finally made it!
You may want to be more ‘appealing’ to your significant other, or members of the same or opposite sex (depending on which way you swing) if you’re single.
Your self-confidence may be in the gutter, and looking and feeling better may do just the trick to raise that up a bit!
About a week ago, I wrote about how it’s important for you to use YOURSELF as your primary motivation! Yes, it’s helpful to use others in your life as motivation, but not if it comes at your own expense.
I’m in the process of reading/listening to a book called Profit First. While this is obviously a book focusing on financials, the strategies that I’ve learned so far detail how not to focus on just generating revenue (like most businesses primarily focus on), but to pay YOURSELF first instead of putting your employees, vendors or other expenses to your organization before yourself.
Obviously, the meat and potatoes of the book reveals how you can go about doing this, but the moral of the story is to make your business work FOR YOU, and not to become a SLAVE to it! The same holds true with your life, and why you’re embarking on this health or weight loss journey.
Many of us have a sort of Martyr Syndrome, where we put literally everything and everyone before our own best interests. While a humble and novel idea at heart, it’s probably THE WORST method you can employ to living your best life.
Do me a favor? LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW with two motivations: 1) Why it’s important to YOU to get healthy and to lose weight, and 2) Who or what in your life adds that motivation.
I look forward to hearing your reply! :-)
Sincerely,
Coach Pete
pete@weightlossbypete.com
