Hello everyone

I'm going to copy a reply I posted a few weeks back:

Motivation is fickle, and requires positive emotion.

I go for committed, determined and resigned.

For me, motivation is the emotion I need to do something above and beyond, something out of the ordinary, something optional.

I treat managing my diet and exercise the same way I treat managing my job, keeping my house clean, making sure my animals are looked after, my car is maintained. It's something I need to do if I don't want my environment to be yucky and miserable. Im not motivated to scrub the toilet and scoop the litter tray, but the alternative is not something I'm willing to live with, so I do it.

Honestly, reframing my mindset away from motivation to necessity has been the big, lasting change I needed.

Anything I can only do when I am motivated and happy is going to fall over pretty fast. To be successful long term, I need to be committed to doing it when when I'm unhappy, stressed, tired, unmotivated etc etc. And you know what? the longer I do this, the happier and more productive I am - but it's the determination and resignation to do this long term that's making me happy and productive, not the happiness and productivity that's making me successful long term.