One of the things I often hear from peo­ple, friends and clients alike, is they need more moti­va­tion to be healthy.  By the time peo­ple come to me for sup­port on being healthy, they have tried many dif­fer­ent things.  They are moti­vated to make a change but don’t know where to start.  Or worse they try to do every­thing at once, become over­whelmed and quit.  So how do we moti­vate our­selves to make changes with­out becom­ing over­whelmed or stuck.

What is motivation?

Let’s start with under­stand­ing what motivation is:

Psy­chol­ogy Today defines motivation as

Moti­va­tion is lit­er­ally the desire to do things. It’s the dif­fer­ence between wak­ing up before dawn to pound the pave­ment and laz­ing around the house all day. It’s the cru­cial ele­ment in set­ting and attain­ing goals—and research shows you can influ­ence your own lev­els of moti­va­tion and self-control. So fig­ure out what you want, power through the pain period,

Con­tinue read­ing…Mak­ing Moti­va­tion Meaningful