{"id":65992,"date":"2021-06-14T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cleanfooddirtygirl.com\/?page_id=65992"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:12:07","slug":"motivation-is-overrated-by-molly-patrick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cleanfooddirtygirl.com\/love-letters\/motivation-is-overrated-by-molly-patrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation is overrated by Molly Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>June 12, 2021 by Molly Patrick<\/p>\n<h1>\n\t\tMotivation is overrated\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p>I love it when people decide to do something and then they go and do it.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t talk about it, they just get up every day and take steps towards the goal. It might be a baby step, a huge step, a sleepy step, a fed-up step, a half-assed step, a wobbly step, an unsure step, a confident step, a scared step, a worried step &#8211; but it&#8217;s a step.<\/p>\nSome people think you need motivation\u00a0to take action.<br \/>\nBut what happens when you&#8217;re not motivated?<br \/>\nDoes the dream die because you waited for motivation to arrive and it was a no-show?\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but of all the things I&#8217;ve accomplished in my life, motivation has not been the driving force. My driving force has been to keep moving forward in the absence of motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Motivation is overrated because it&#8217;s short-lived and infrequent.<\/p>\n<p>If we can take action when we don&#8217;t feel like it, that is what gets us to our goals. I mean, we might need a nap first, but then we take action. And when we take action and start producing results, like magic, we will be motivated to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait for motivation to magically appear. Create motivation by not needing it to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>When you see people slaying life and accomplishing their goals, it&#8217;s not because they have some secret sauce they&#8217;re sipping on, they just didn&#8217;t stop when their dream got hard. When motivation took a vacation, they said screw it and kept going. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>If you can master moving forward when you don&#8217;t feel motivated to do so, your goal is as good as done.<\/p>\n<p>Today over on the blog, I&#8217;m talking about weight loss and whether or not eating a plant based diet can help. My answers might surprise you. 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