Is Motivation Enough?
Updated: Mar 23
Motivation is the pathway that will always get you from where you are to where you want to be. Motivation is being able to grow in the act of service, and a goal. Is motivation enough to actually attain the goal? Mmm... no, but this blog offer you a simple clear strategy using motivation, along with three factors to attain everything you are dreaming of and more.

Let's use running a marathon as an example for motivation. When you finish the run, when you're crossing the finish line, when you're on the other side of the platform and you see your racing time that is motivation. Motivation is what your achievement looks like, what it feels like when you actually attain it
There are a few other factors you can use in order to successfully get from where you are to where you want to be in life, every single time, with grace, confidence and integrity.
They are responsibility, consistency and discipline. When you apply motivation, consistency, responsibility to self and discipline, you can attain anything you have ever wanted to achieve in your whole life.
The first one is responsibility. Responsibility, is defined as the state or fact of having a duty.
Let's use a single mother, as an example who is working two or three jobs, in order to provide a stable environment for her children to grow in. She has a responsibility of ensuring her children are feed, have a roof over their head, are clothed and have the necessities that are needed in order to live a fulfilled life.
That is responsibility. Responsibility can also look as duty. When you have a duty to yourself and you want to achieve a plan that is being responsible for the outcome of anything you want in your life. And that's why it's important. The same is true for relationships. We each have a duty to our spouse in order to enjoy a healthy and loving relationship.
Using running a marathon to frame how to incorporate motivation, responsibility, discipline and consistency. When you set out to train, if you're already an avid runner, maybe you need three or six months to prepare your body and mind to run a race. But, if you haven't run a marathon before, then you reverse engineer or work backwards by creating a small plan to attain your desired goal.
First of all, you do a little bit of research and of course, go see your doctor to make sure that you're healthy enough in order to be able to pursue this goal. Start by defining your objectives, create an outline followed by small actionable steps to execute over the next year. Plan the months out by asking yourself" what are the monthly running requirements over the next 12 months?" or "How will I schedule short runs and a long runs to reach 17 miles or 19 miles?
Which is a big thing if you haven't done this before.
So when you calculate month one running one mile a day or running one mile three or four times a week, just to understand how does your body work? And of course, because as you have a responsibility to yourself, because this is something you're going to achieve. You also know to prepare for hurt your body is going to feel and the soreness over the coming months.
during the most hardest moments you're going through in training, you will see yourself running the race. You see yourself completing it. I see your time on the other side of the finish line.
Segway right into the beautifulness of the next factor, which is called discipline.
Discipline is the code of behavior. It's the practice of training people to obey orders. To focus on the practice of training. When you're training for a marathon, just to use it as an example, right? It's a year long journey being discipline to be able to go out and run that one mile, two or three times a week for the first week, and then going up to one and a half miles and then going up to four or five miles in the course of the first month.
It takes discipline and it takes responsibility, because it's something that you have promised yourself and it's something that you're sure to attain by just being responsible and honoring what you said you were going to complete for yourself and adding in that discipline.
The third factor that is added into the process is called consistency. Consistency is the state or condition of all ways of always happening or behaving in a manner or the same way.
So when you're consistent, you can at McDonald's, for example. You can identify McDonald's by the golden arches. When you walk into the restaurant, it's set up the same way. You order in the same spot and the French fries and the hamburgers are packaging are always the same.
Using running a marathon to attain your goal at the end of 12 months, consistency is so important because when you create a schedule, right, because you have your motivation, which is attaining the goal, you have the responsibility or duty that you have placed on yourself by honoring yourself and being committed to completing this task. Right?
Then you have that discipline which is the practice of training. It's the consistent behavior with yourself that even when you're tired, even when you don't feel like it, even when you're sore, or maybe your friends are going out and it's right in the center of the time when you actually go on a long run and you say to yourself, Oh, forget about it. I want to go with my friends.
The thing that happens when we lack discipline and when we lack consistency you can say I can skip running one or two times. You can also say, I don't want to do it. Oh, I have something else to do that is more fun. Oh, I'm not interested or Oh, I have friends or something else I want to do. What happens next is that two or three weeks goes by and then when you go out to run again, it's torture- it is so much harder because you've lost that momentum, you've lost the momentum in the training.
It's so important to maintain that momentum because momentum will always drive you forward even when you don't feel like it or even when you're not motivated. You're able to look at the schedule that you've created for yourself or the little outline of a plan, right, that you're going to run every month.
On Tuesday, for example, it's going to be your long run. So then on Monday and Thursday and Friday or Saturday, maybe you'll run a short run. But on Tuesday, that's when you run your long run. You can reflect on your schedule and know, by the end of the 11th month your long run will go anywhere from 15 miles up to maybe 19 miles, because by month eleven it's just about creating endurance.
Endurance is another way of saying momentum, momemtun propels you forward. The rest of your training endurance is used when you're at the 20 mile mark and you have a few more miles to go. It's all about that mental discipline because you've ingrained it in yourself. You have that responsibility to yourself and you know that you're going to complete the race.
You already trained yourself to be disciplined because that's a code of behavior. It's the practice of training. You've been doing it for so long that you know that you're going to attain your goal. Being consistent is knowing that four days out of the week you're going to run three short run and one day is going to be a long run.
At the end of your training is when you actually go and run your marathon and then you cross the finish line. You feel elated, exhausted, sore, nauseous and overwhelmed. Part of the reason you feel the way you is the motivation that has driven you forward. Motivation is the pathway that always leads you from where you are to where you want to be.
