Lack of Willpower isn’t Your Problem
Decision fatigue (also known as choice overload) is the diversion of your finite mental resources to excessive or non-essential problem solving.
These are the things that push into your mental (and physical) space that force you to weight up options for reallocating your time. You might recognise them by the nagging feeling that you should be doing something else, or be somewhere else!
Your Space and Your Motivation
If you’re lacking energy and enthusiasm for your goals take a look around you. Is your space dragging you down? Or even, just parts of your space? How can you make nutritious meals easily if you are overwhelmed by your kitchen?
When you break your large goal into smaller tasks and STILL feel overwhelmed!
Take a big goal and break it down into small tasks… that’s the advice everyone gives, and it’s supposed to make the big task feel LESS overwhelming. But what if it doesn’t help you? You just went from having one thing to do, to having thirty things to do!
Staying on track with YOUR health and wellbeing - Christmas is JUST for Christmas!
We're not ruining Christmas here and telling you that you can't have a mince pie - in fact, just the opposite. We want you to have a mince pie AND enjoy the chocolate out of your advent calendar. One of us is a Grinch and one of us is Santa's Elf so this conversation is a good balance.
Stop Exercising to Lose Weight!
Yes you read that right. We want everyone to stop thinking that losing weight is the only reason/motivation to exercise and we've got some very good reasons why!
The Power of 30
We are well overdue with this conversation - we're talking about the Power of 30. Whether you're trying a new habit for 30 days or ring-fencing 30 minutes of your day to move forward with something you are trying to achieve it really, really works.
Steps to Change Your Mindset
We didn't get chance to give you some real solid ideas for how to change your mindset in last week's episode. To be honest we go so excited about counting backwards from 5, engaging our pre-frontal cortex's and the correct way to high-5 yourself!
Perfection will SLOW your progress!
When we first started talking about reasons and excuses we never thought it would lead to a whole mini-series. The quote that started all of this from Eric Hoffer goes; "There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than achievement, for an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything, we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book and not painting a picture and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture.