The truth about motivation...

3 years ago I would watch people doing things that I wanted to be able to do. I would watch them getting up early to workout, juggling kids, a job, and the whole to-do list. I wanted that, I wanted it so badly but I didn't know how. And I had this whole story about "them". I kept telling myself that they had more motivation than I did. That they had more dedication or more willpower than I possessed. I told myself that they had more time and more energy. And I told myself that I could never do that. Now I realize after 3 years of posting my workouts, my results, the changes that I have made in my life. I might appear to be one of these people that I wanted to be. But what I want you to realize is there is no "these people". There are not people that are more motivated, or more dedicated, or have more time or more energy. These people have the same thoughts about how they are tired, and don't want to, they have the same insecurities and fears of failing that keep you from not trying and they have a ton of other things on their list to do that they could CHOOSE to do. The difference is that they just make a CHOICE. They make a choice to just act. A choice to quiet the insecurities. A choice to ignore the pulling of the mile long to-do list. A choice to change the thought that has kept them wishing. And they start ACTING. You are not unmotivated, or not dedicated enough to yourself, you are not lazy or too tired. You just have allowed those thoughts for too long to keep in a place of inaction. But the GREAT NEWS is you can make the choice at any moment to change those thoughts and create the person that you want to become and the life you want to live. {And here is proof from this morning about how just unmotivated I was this morning to work out. I look REAL happy to be working out.}