Workout: Mornings

Loss of motivation is the first gate to suffering. You lose motivation now. You don't feel like doing anything. You don't feel like doing anything. You don't work out. You don't feel like working out. You don't feel like doing anything. You don't feel like doing anything. You don't want to do your goals don't feel like doing your goals. Feel unfulfilled. Feel unfulfilled. Feel unsatisfied. Feel unsatisfied. Feel like life is meaningless. It is a slippery slope when you lose motivation. But the issue is no one has motivation 247 all the time. Motivation is an emotion you learn to cultivate by using your mind, your body, your greater consciousness to ensure that you feel that pull of purpose that you feel, that energy inside that says, I want to create, I want to contribute, I want to be my best self. I want to connect with people. And so motivation is something we're going to have to generate on a consistent basis. Motivation is an emotion we feel by either luck or by purposeful conscious design. I just choose to design it into my day every single day. For some people, if you just wake up, I mean, think about it, you wake up, you grab your phone, you're like, you know, and all of a sudden you don't have any motivation. Instead, you look through all this stuff, and all it did is make you feel like you're not enough or distracted you, or it upsets you or created, you know, anger, anxiousness. You got to be careful how you're using cues to start your day. I use cues to start my day. Motivated. I'll wake up and I'll think about someone I want to do something nice for or surprise today. I'll think of something I can be excited about today or as soon as possible in the morning. Fit, revisit my ambitions, listen, my goals, this. I'll look at them. I'll not wander through the day looking at social media. And then, oh, I guess it's time to work and look at my goals. It's like, my goals, I mean, in the first few minutes of the day, I'm revisiting them. And what I'm doing is when I'm looking at my goals or my agenda or my schedule, I'm looking at it. I'm thinking, okay, why do I want this? What would life be like? Like this. How could I go get it? What should I do today to make that happen? And that motivates me. Meaning if we don't give our ambitions, our goals, a lot of attention the motivation just goes away. Because motivation is either fueled by our attention or by momentum, right? It either takes reflection or action to generate serious sustained motivation. Either reflection or action. Because ultimately from the reflection, that gives us clarity, and clarity can give us confidence, or action can give us momentum. And when we have momentum, motivation is way easier to cultivate, generate and sustain, obviously. So these are really important concepts. Every morning, get very close to your goals ambitiously. What are those things that you want, desire, need, and would enjoy? And what do you need to go to get it? That's the intrinsic type of things, the things we'll feel good about, the drive, satisfaction, fulfillment, meaning excitement in us. But I also have my extrinsic meaning, my external cues or goals or rewards that also I revisit. So for me, example, when I always tell you, wake up each day and at some point say, who needs me on my A game? For me, every morning I re anchor down into my relationships. I think about, okay, if I don't show up today and do a good job, then my wife and I have a lower quality of life. Then I can't support my mom, then I can't support my team. Like, you want to kick off the day, Kick off the day with motivation. Like, get all ready in the morning immediately in a good state of mind. When I'm in a great state of mind, it's like, bam, the day goes. And you know what? If you start the morning in the right frame of mind, motivated, driven, because you're connected to what drives you and and what will serve other people, then when you start, like running out of gas at noon, 1, 2 or 3, it's easier to fuel that flame than to start a new fire.