Knowing how to stay motivated can mean the difference between reaching your goals and staying stuck. 

It’s easy to feel excited and motivated when starting something new, but that inspiration begins to fade once the novelty of an experience wears off.

Then there are days where you feel exhausted, with zero motivation to even look at your to-do list. You feel unproductive and have no desire to do anything. So how do you push past that feeling to find the motivation to be productive even when it’s the last thing you feel like doing? In this episode, I discuss different principles you can put into practice when you need to accomplish your to-do list but struggle to find the energy or motivation to do so.

Episode Resources

• The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power: Burchard, Brendon: 9781401948078: Amazon.com: Books


• Meditations (Thrift Editions) : Nichols, John Gough, Emperor of, Marcus Aurelius: Amazon.co.uk: Books


•  The Huberman Lab Podcast


• Marianne Williamson Poem -
  Marianne Williamson – Our Deepest Fear | Genius
  
  
  
  

Additional notes

Dopamine and motivation

Dopamine is closely related to motivation and desire. It’s the chemical that encourages us to seek rewards, motivating us into action. It’s powerfully involved in shifting our mindset towards success, and recognising possible accomplishments.

In an episode of The Huberman Lab Podcast, Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, substantiates this: 

“Dopamine has all these incredible properties of increasing the amount of energy in our bodies and minds, and our ability to focus.”

If you’ve ever met someone who is extremely motivated and driven and compared them to someone who is completely indifferent and unmotivated, you’re seeing a difference in the level of dopamine in their systems.

By learning how to manage your dopamine levels, you can dramatically impact your motivation. 

When you add insights from psychology about what makes people more likely to stay motivated and work through challenges – you have powerful fuel for success.

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