If you’re struggling with a task, it might be helpful to reframe the situation and think about finding inspiration rather than motivation. Dr Gabija Toleikyte and I discussed this in Episode 1 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career, and she told me:
“I like to move from motivation to inspiration. So motivation is pumping yourself up to do the task you don’t want to do which requires constant energy in order to do so.
Now if you really get clear what things you really enjoy doing, what things are truly important to you and link that task to those things …
you would naturally feel more inspired to do that task and being motivated would just follow naturally from it. So I find that a much more long-lasting effect.”
Check out the video clip below or for the full podcast interview, click here.
Dr Gabija Toleikyte is a neuroscientist, lecturer, and performance and wellbeing coach. She is currently a lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University and her first book, “Why the F*ck can’t I change?”
I first met Gabija at one of her evening lectures and quickly became a huge fan of hers and neuroscience and have attended a number of her lectures and workshops since then. I was so pleased when she agreed to appear as the first guest on my podcast and we had such a fun conversation. Thank you Gabija!
