Fitness Inspiration | 7 Steps to Stay Motivated on Your Fitness Journey

November 5, 2020

Looking for fitness inspiration? You've come to the right place, read below for advice from TLF influencer Naomi Kong on staying motivated to reach your fitness goals!

Motivation

Motivation is a funny thing. How is it that so many of us can search so long and so hard for something, acquire it, but only to have to go in search of it again the next day? How is it that we can spend so much time and energy chasing something but never fully grasp it?

Are we looking in the wrong places?
Using the wrong strategy?
Not searching long enough?
Maybe it’s motivation that’s hiding from us...

Or… Could it be that motivation isn’t what we’re really looking for?

The thing is--why do we really even need motivation?
What purpose does motivation serve in our lives?

For most people, their answer will fall somewhere along the lines of: to be successful in reaching my goals.

However, if we’re spending more time looking for motivation than we are actively taking steps towards our goals, then how effective is looking for motivation, really?

If success is indeed the goal and not motivation, should we not be spending more time acting on our goals than we do in hopeless searches for motivation?

So, let’s switch the question of: “How do I find motivation?” to: “How do I reach my goals?”
‘Cause that’s the real end goal here, right? To be successful. The end-goal isn’t to find motivation. Searching for motivation is just something we do to help us reach our goal. 

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Here are a few simple steps on how to successfully reach your goals:

Let’s do an example together:

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Everyone is different

For some people, they really do run on a motivation high 24/7.
But for others (me included), I’m going to need a little extra push other than feelings of motivation that are ever-changing depending on the hour of the day and the day of the week and the week of the month.

At the end of the day, always do what works best for you.

Whatever journey you are on, be it your fitness journey, school journey, career journey, etc.--keep on going at it. You are closer than you think and making greater strides than you know. Continue to make time for the things that matter most in your life and never be afraid to say no to the things that don’t contribute to your goals. You are on your way to becoming your ultimate self and you are unstoppable.

There really are so many ways to reach your fitness goals and different things will work for every person. For me personally, this is my biggest tip for succeeding on your fitness journey: spend more time working out and fueling your body with the proper nutrients than you do trying to find motivation. I promise that by the time you’ve exacerbated all your energy on a hopeless chase to find feelings of motivation, that you could’ve made incredible progress towards your goals if you would’ve simply made a plan and accomplished one small step every day.

I know it’s easier said than done, but this is the year we’re really going to show up for ourselves and prove to ourselves that we can do it. No more making the same New Year’s resolutions again and again. No more being unhappy. No more doubting ourselves. No more letting other things take priority. No more not putting ourselves and our goals first.

Stay focused and more committed to your goals than you are to fear of change. The only way to discover and reach your potential is to challenge yourself to grow. You’ve got this.

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