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069 - 4 Simple Steps to Stay Motivated

Hello there and welcome to another episode of The Feel Good English Podcast. This is your host Kevin, helping you become more fluent in English and more fluent in life.

Today I have a mini episode, it is a Q and A episode which means I get questions from listeners and answer them here on the podcast. Q, question, A, answer.

And this question comes from Mateo; Mateo is from Barcelona, Spain, and he asks, “Kevin, thank you for the podcast, I love the content you teach but I find it very difficult to stay motivated sometimes. I stay motivated for maybe one week or two weeks but I often lose motivation. Kevin, what can I do to stay motivated longer?”

Great question, Mateo; thank you for sending that in, and you know what? I have dealt with the same issue many times in my life and you listening out there I am sure you have too.

So what I’m going to do is give you four ways that you can stay motivated and do you know where I found these techniques?

From the one and only Tony Robbins.

Tony Robbins is probably the most successful Life Coach, Success Coach out there, and if I am going to teach something about motivation, I definitely feel confident in teaching you something based on the ideas of Tony Robbins.

So I will give you four tactics to get motivated; it will start working instantly if you follow these steps.

Before I get into that, remember if you want a transcript to this episode and other episodes of The Feel Good English Podcast, go to feelgoodenglish.com where you can find free transcripts and transcripts to all other episodes.

So after this, once you’re feeling motivated, go to feelgoodenglish.com and sign up for the free transcripts, see you over there. And now, four steps to help you stay motivated longer.

The first step is to feed your mind positivity, positive information, positive ideas, things that encourage you, things that are motivating, things that are inspirational.

We automatically will create negative thoughts, we will automatically get tired, we will automatically get complacent, we will automatically get bored if we don’t do anything to fight it. It is kind of our body and mind’s natural reaction to the moment.

If we just sit around and do nothing, maybe you have it done that before, eventually, you will start feeling low.

So what do we do? Feed our minds good positive, educational, motivating content, like in this podcast. When we do this, you will notice an instant change, you will start thinking better, more positively, more optimistic. So continue to feed your mind good content.

Ted Talks, great books, non-fiction books or whatever inspires you, inspiring YouTube videos; find that content force yourself to do it. It doesn’t have to be long and you don’t have to do anything else but feed your mind the content. So that is step one.

Step two, energize your body. Our bodies and our minds are connected. Often if we are feeling unmotivated, we are feeling tired, we are feeling lazy, the last thing we want to do is exercise. However, it has been proven so many times and I have seen this consistently in so many books from powerful successful authors, exercise is key; there is nothing that increases my spirits more than just going out for a walk.

If I am feeling low, feeling down, forcing myself to go for a walk always works and clears my mind. That’s a start. Even more, build your body up, exercise, build your muscles, workout, do yoga, do these things. Your bodies and your minds are connected, so don’t let one slide without building the other.

Step two, make your body stronger.

Third step, surround yourself with positive people, find somebody or people to look up to, to inspire you. Now you might not have anybody directly in your life, so find a seminar, find a conference where there are positive people trying to make a difference in their lives and put yourself into that situation.

This could even be through audiobooks or podcasts like this one; put yourself around positive people, it will be contagious and their positivity will lift your spirits.

Also follow their advice on life and follow what they do. As Tony Robbins says, “Success leaves clues”, those clues are hints of what you should be doing. Follow those, copy what they do.

If somebody is a powerful, confident English speaker, figure out what they did to get to that way and try to imitate that. If they were in the US or they lived abroad and you can’t imitate that, you can do that online, and you can put yourself around speakers as much as possible.

So somebody who speaks English well and is confident, spend more time with these people and follow what they do and imitate their choices and their behaviors so you can get to that point as well.

There is nothing more destructive than hanging around people that bring you down and that are negative and criticize. So try to remove those people from your life and replace them with positive people, or at least minimize your time with these people and replace this time with positive people.

Number four, help somebody else. And if I am applying this to English, this is very, very simple. Often we want to become fluent, powerful English speakers and we get discouraged, we can’t understand native speakers one hundred percent, we can’t speak with confidence, we can’t speak clearly, we feel that we aren’t where we need to be.

What can you do?

Help others, help them become better; change your mindset, say instead of “Me me me, it’s all about me, how can I get better?” Help somebody else get to your level.

Go online and find forums and help them learn things that they are trying to learn that you already know.

And this will do two things for you. That first one is through teaching you will learn more. You will be surprised how much English you will learn by teaching somebody even at a lower level than you, English.

Second when we help others we always fill our spirits, we feel more in control of our future and in control of our actions and what we’re doing and this will start a cycle of feeling good, feeling positive, feeling that we are in charge of our fate and then taking action and using that energy to continue moving forward to help motivate us to continue doing what we need to do it so we can become as fluent and successful in English or life as possible.

Okay?

That is the four steps. Go back and listen to this four simple steps that will help you stay motivated, that will get you out of a rut, meaning it will get you out of a place where you are feeling low, and get you back on track and help bring back energy into your English learning.

Thanks for listening and thanks Mateo for your question. If you have a question, send them to kevin@feelgoodenglish.com, I am here to answer them for you and then share the answers all over the world.

So Mateo, you are not only helping yourself but you are helping everybody else listening to this.

1) Until next time, feed your mind with positive and inspirational material.

2) Strengthen your body through exercise and nutrition.

3) Find people that will help you become better, spend more time with these people, copy them, make a plan and copy their behavior and…

4) help others so you will feel better about to yourself as well.

Thanks for listening, see you in the next episode of The Feel Good English Podcast.

At five minutes I use the expression “Let something slide.” To let something slide, to let it slide or to let the problem slide, means to let something happen without the consequences that should take place, or without making changes. So maybe you are a boss and your employee comes to work often late. And you say “Well you have been coming to work late for the last few weeks and I have been letting it slide. However, I am going to stop letting it slide, I am going to stop letting you do this without consequences. So don’t be late.”

Next one, “Success leaves clues.” A clue, C-L-U-E, is a sign that shows how something works or something that has happened. If you have ever watched a mystery movie or read a mystery novel and, there is a crime and then you find clues around the house.

Maybe they dropped something that showed who was in the house and you pick it up and say “Here is a clue.” So “Successful people leave clues”, means they show, you can see things that they do, you can find little examples of things that they do that lead to their success. So you are supposed to look for those things.

“To get out of a rut”, eight minutes and twenty-five seconds.

Often you will hear somebody say “I am stuck in a rut” or “I am in a rut.” That just means you are in a down period, you are not feeling well you are kind of in a hole. A rut is similar to a hole so you are kind of in a hole. So get you out of a rut, get you out of by that bad feeling, and start making you feel happier again.

Connected with this, a little bit right after that, at eight minutes and thirty seconds, “Get you back on track.” Let’s get you back on track, let us return you to a positive and productive state, get you back to where you can be happy and productive again so let us get you back on track.

Go through the lesson again and listen for these expressions and get back on track.

See you in the next episode.