What motivates you?
As a Personal Fitness Trainer I think a lot about what motivates my clients.
What makes us pick up our feet and do what we gotta do?
What I find is that motivation works the same way, backwards and forwards. It's like this...
BACKWARDS:
I eat one Hershey's Kiss. I am motivated to eat more.
My job is mostly sedentary. I am motivated to be less active.
My co-workers (mostly healthy weights) like to snack (on unhealthy foods). I am motivated to do the same.
I find comfort in certain foods. I am motivated to drug myself with them.
None of this takes much effort. I am motivated to do even less.
FORWARDS:
I read a success-story blog on Spark. My endorphins kick in. I am motivated to want success.
I skip an unhealthy snack. It isn't as hard as I thought it would be. I am motivated to do it again.
No pasta or pizza till I can't breathe, and I sleep better. I am motivated to eat more healthfully and lightly.
Moving, even a little bit, raises my energy. I am motivated to move more.
What we feed grows.
If we feed the negative in our lives, it gets bigger. It becomes an unending cycle of drudgery and pain. And it continually gets worse. It can be so easy to become an EXPERT at feeding the negative. I think we all know how to do that.
If we feed the positive in our lives, it gets bigger. The cycle is now made up of health, strength, and energy. Feeding the positive, well, that's a learning experience for me. It takes planning and effort and action. It takes conscious overcoming and taking an honest inventory of what makes you negative and what keeps you negative. It's usually NOT food. What is it for you?
Recently I've been feeding both. Talk about confusion. No wonder my mind and body can't quite get it together. I've fed my negative cycle with poor food choices and poor sleep. I've fed my positive cycle with lots of water and some great physical exertion. My goal is to replace the negative with positive the absolute majority of the time. Looks like my work is cut out for me.
How do you feed the positive in your life? What makes you pick up your feet and do what you gotta do? Give me a call, email or text and let me know. I'm loving compiling the positive motivators list that so helps me and all others.
