Do you ever say to yourself “I just need to feel motivated about my fitness goals. Then I can get into a routine.” Or “I need something to make me feel motivated to get started.”
Motivation is probably the most important topic in fitness.
And it makes sense. To put it bluntly, you want to feel motivated to do the thing you need to do so it doesn’t feel like it sucks as much. Here’s the problem. Motivation is a feeling. And feelings are fleeting and unreliable. Picture this. If you needed a knee replacement and the surgeon in charge of your appointment had a track record of sometimes replacing the wrong knee, you’d have already canceled your appointment and be screaming about their ineptitude from the hilltops so everyone would hear. Your health is critical, and they are unreliable. You wouldn’t be putting something so important in such unreliable hands. So why are you still asking the same question about feeling motivated when you have a track record of that not working for you, and your health and happiness is on the line? When you’re constantly looking for something to make you feel motivated and it’s not working, it’s not working because it’s the wrong question to ask. Here’s the right question to ask so you can (reliably) feel motivated about your health and fitness goals.
