What is Your Motivator

The difference between the emotion that motivates you and the one your brain uses thinking it’s motivating you. This is going to be fun.

What does motivated feel like?

Powerful, certain, grounded, calm, excited, driven, committed, contentment.

When you feel those, you’re clear. You know what you’re doing. You’re not forcing yourself.

But our brain can link other emotions as motivators—and they’re not.

For me, it was disappointment. I thought I had to wait to be proud of myself until I reached the goal. So I kept feeling disappointed. And that didn’t make me take action. It made me sit, avoid, and question everything.

My brain thought disappointment was a motivator. It’s not.

Same with guilt and nervous. They can feel important, but they don’t create motivating action. They create judgment, avoidance, hiding, and feeling stuck.

These emotions aren’t problems. They’re magnifying glasses.

So instead of using them to push yourself, use them to look.

Ask yourself: why do I feel this?

That’s where the clarity is.

Then you can put the magnifying glass down and choose a real motivator:

Powerful. Certain. Calm. Committed. Content.

That’s what creates action.

You don’t need to eliminate guilt or disappointment. You just don’t use them as motivators.

Use them to understand what’s going on, then choose what will actually move you forward.

This takes practice. But once you see it, everything changes.

Join us in Authentic Confidence Reset to feel yourself again. Click here to sign up.

If you want weekly gems to feel your most authentic self, sign up for the Lovelies List here.

Tag @mschristiewilliams and share your top takeaways!

• What real motivation feels like
• Why guilt, nervousness, and disappointment are not motivators
• How your default brain links the wrong emotions to action
• How to use emotions as a magnifying glass instead of pressure
• How to choose real motivating emotions on purpose

The post What is Your Motivator appeared first on Ms Christie Williams.