Quotes About Motivation

When something is tiny, it's easy to do—which means you don't need to rely on the unreliable nature of motivation.

When you celebrate effectively, you tap into the reward circuitry of your brain. By feeling good at the right moment, you cause your brain to recognize and encode the sequence of behaviors you just performed.

By keeping the bar low, you keep the habit alive.

After I (ANCHOR), I will (NEW HABIT).

Will it help you do what you already want to do? Will it help you feel successful? The answers to those questions is freeing because if the change program doesn't satisfy these two requirements, it's not worth your time.

Simplicity changes behavior.

Doing two push-ups against a wall is easy to accomplish so you're much more

And demotivators can push us into self-criticism. If you want to cut down on calories, putting a note on your fridge that says, STOP! YOU'RE OVERWEIGHT would certainly be demotivating, but it's also demoralizing. We change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad, so make sure your attempts at demotivating behavior don't morph into guilt trips.

People often believe that motivating themselves toward an aspiration will lead to lasting change. So people focus on aspirations. And they focus on motivation. And that combo doesn't produce results.

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

Keeping changes small and expectations low is how you design around fair-weather friends like motivation and willpower.

Let's say someone offers you a million dollars if you can immediately reduce your blood glucose to normal levels. A million dollars is pretty darn motivating, right? But can you reach this outcome immediately? Probably not. Motivation alone doesn't get you there.

People change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad. Step 2: Tape the paper to your bathroom mirror or anywhere you will frequently see it. Step 3: Read the phrase often.

Without education, confidence does not come.

When we ask ourselves, "What am I doing?" and "Why am I doing it?" our minds open. This is self-awareness.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

Hearing teams like Rangers are interested in you, you intend to give that little bit extra to show that obviously you can play and score goals.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.

Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

I want to show other girls how happy I am and how confident I am, how I still want to go to school and I still want to rap.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.