Most people approach goals like weight loss or building muscle with motivation as the sole (or at least, primary) factor getting them to consistently do what needs to be done.

This is great, except for one thing: motivation is temporary.

It goes up and down over the course of a day, comes and goes over the course of weeks, and completely vanishes and eventually reappears (if you’re lucky) over a span of months, years, and decades.

It’s something that could be there in full force on Monday but then not be there at all on Tuesday.

Yet this is the thing you (and everyone else) have decided to rely on to get yourself to consistently do what needs to be done on a daily basis?

That’s never going to work.

It’s impossible.

You’re doomed from the start with this approach.

In the end, motivation is a wonderful thing for getting people to START doing something, but it absolutely sucks for getting people to continue doing that thing on a consistent basis.
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That’s why the real problem here has nothing to do with your lack of motivation, or your inability to “stay motivated.”

“Staying motivated” doesn’t exist, so feel free to permanently remove that concept from your brain and stop wasting your time searching for it.

You’ll never find it.

Instead, the real problem is your belief that motivation is something you need to have in order to consistently workout, eat right, and do everything else that needs to be done to successfully lose weight, build muscle, or reach whatever goal you have.

But it’s not.

Take me, for example.

Do you think I’m always motivated to workout? 3-5 days per week? Every week? For the last 15 years?

Hell no!

But yet I don’t miss workouts.

And do you think I’m always motivated to eat right? And stick to my diet? And eat the right amounts of calories/macros each day while keeping the junky stuff to a minimum?

Hell no!

But yet I do it anyway.