How to Motivate Yourself: Leverage Dopamine & Overcome Your Excuses

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Do you want to know the surprising truth about #motivation?

Right now, think about something you want to change or improve.

How do you make lasting and powerful changes and life improvements? And how do you keep going even when you don’t have the motivation to do it?

If change was easy, we’d all have six-pack abs and a million dollars in the bank.

And that’s where this episode comes in: Mel is here to teach you the HOW.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
How to self-motivate so you can take action
What dopamine is and how it’s linked to motivation
The simple steps you can take today to tap back into your internal drive
The 2 truths about motivation that you are forgetting
The research-backed reason you continue, initiate, or quit something
What to do when someone you love is losing motivation
The real reason you cannot #motivate others
How to cope with not getting something you have been working towards
How to navigate feeling “behind” or in a “comparison game”
How to pick yourself back up when you feel like life’s punched you in the face
The first (and most important) step in understanding what drives your motivation
One powerful question to ask yourself when you feel “stuck”
What role #dreams and #goals play (and it’s not always to achieve them)
How to hack the moment of hesitation we all feel
The most powerful reframe you need about failing
How to get clear about the direction you are going in without wandering aimlessly
Mel’s 5-second rule that will move you towards action (even when you are not motivated)

This episode comes with a 29-page companion workbook. This workbook is designed using the latest research to help you get clear about what you want and empower you to take the next step forward in your life. And the cool part? It takes less than a minute for you to get your hands on it.

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I’m just your friend. I am not a licensed therapist, and this podcast is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional. Got it? Good. I’ll see you in the next episode.

In this episode:
00:00 Intro
02:11: That painful moment of rejection that bursts your motivation.
07:22: What NOT to do when someone you love gets rejected.
08:34: What to do after life punches you in the face.
16:52: What is motivation, anyway?
18:24: The chemical that motivation relies on and why you need to know.
24:41: One of the most important hacks to help you stir up motivation again.
35:21: Three powerful words from advertising history that will change you.
40:02: A powerful mantra Mel wants you to repeat when you don’t feel like it.

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