One of the odd things about our work is we come across certain words a lot and we’re often amazed at how they are misused or misunderstood. From this list the undisputed king is the concept of ‘motivation’. I often explain the myth that some of us have more of it than others with a little story. Imagine we knew someone who spent all day, every day sitting at home on the couch watching TV and eating chips.
It would be tempting to call this person unmotivated, wouldn’t it?
But we’d be wrong. In fact the couch potato is a highly motivated individual albeit towards activities you and I might not think are very productive. The fact is, until we die, we all have the same amount of motivation and it’s the direction of these efforts (eg. choice of how we spent our time) that differs from one person to the next. Have a think about that the next time you hear or use the terms motivated / motivator / motivation.
Cheers, GJM
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I am usually a very motivated person but sometimes when I get a mix of been really sore, tired and/or emotionally down, I dont want to train or have anything to do with anything. I get really unmotivated. After a couple of days rest and some self talk(self motivation) I am my usual self. Im not sure if this fits in with this post, its just my view of motivation.
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