"Seeking Motivation" - "Help me find motivation" - "Not motivated" -

serindipte

I went in search of definitions to get the point across that I wanted to make. Instead, I found someone who'd already said it perfectly...

Screw motivation, what you need is discipline.
by Zbyhnev

If you want to get anything done, there are two basic ways to get yourself to do it.

The first, more popular and devastatingly wrong option is to try to motivate yourself.

The second, somewhat unpopular and entirely correct choice is to cultivate discipline.

This is one of these situations where adopting a different perspective immediately results in superior outcomes. Few uses of the term “paradigm shift” are actually legitimate, but this one is. It’s a lightbulb moment.

What’s the difference?


Motivation, broadly speaking, operates on the erroneous assumption that a particular mental or emotional state is necessary to complete a task.

That’s completely the wrong way around.

Discipline, by contrast, separates outwards functioning from moods and feelings and thereby ironically circumvents the problem by consistently improving them.

The implications are huge.

Successful completion of tasks brings about the inner states that chronic procrastinators think they need to initiate tasks in the first place.

Put in simpler form, you don’t wait until you’re in olympic form to start training. You train to get into olympic form.

If action is conditional on feelings, waiting for the right mood becomes a particularly insidious form of procrastination. I know that too well, and wish somebody pointed it out for me twenty, fifteen or ten years ago before I learned the difference the hard way.

Source: https://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-is-discipline/

girlwithcurls2

Some wise soul here once posted on a "not motivated" thread that motivation has no direct correlation to how your workout will go. I decided to test it out. It wasn't hard, since I was in a rut. Turns out, it's true. I had some really great workouts on days when it took everything I had to just drive to the pool. There were also the "meh" days when the workout was nothing to write home about. It helps me to remember that so that regardless of how I feel (key word-it's just a feeling), I've created the habit to go anyway. And who knows? It might be a great one!

tinkerbellang83

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818701/the-myth-of-motivation-and-what-you-need-instead/p1

serindipte

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818701/the-myth-of-motivation-and-what-you-need-instead/p1

Yes! This! Thanks for sharing