Finding Motivation when you are Feeling Uninspired.

Ever wake up not feeling great, a bit lethargic, a little flat? Thinking it would be so much better if I was in flow, or feeling motivated?

I do. Recently I woke up feeling super tired, I cancelled my tennis game booked in for first thing and was generally lacking energy. I started to feel more spritely as the day went on but I noticed a lack of my usual natural perkiness and a weight that I don’t always feel unless my thinking is off track somehow.

Tuesday came by and more of the same. As I was sipping my coffee and thinking about what wanted to get done, I started to jot it all down. Nothing extraordinary about it, just a regular day’s to do list.

·      Client session

·      Reply to Whatsapp messages

·      Send date and time options to x

·      Client session

·      Coach on FB posts in the school

·      Lunch

·      Create Lisa’s Learning for the It’s a relationship business game

·      Reconnect with x

·      Reply to emails

·      Follow up with videographer

And I looked at it. I really looked at it. It was BORING. Reading it like that, imagining my day from these words… well it isn’t very inspiring.  Emails, admin, scheduling etc. blah blah blah.

I could see that there was once a time when I had wished for a day like this. Being grateful to be my own boss, to have a full client list, to have my day be all about conversations and connections. But even with those thoughts, I still didn’t feel inspired.

So I drew a line down the page and reflected differently on my day and what it means.

Because there is always a perspective I can sit in that has things feel differently.

Next to each item, I considered what it really meant.

I thought about the clients I work with who I get to spend time with today, whether that be in 1:1 sessions, or in emails and messages, or in the UK School of Coaching & Self-Mastery. I thought about their dreams and aspirations and who they were becoming in the process of bringing it all to form. I thought about the actions they were taking, the worries and concerns I hear from them, the re-committing to the path that I see in them. I thought about how far they had come, their wins and achievements, I thought about their lives and their families lives.

I thought about the videographer, and the possibility that comes from the work we do together. I thought about all the people who might find motivation and inspiration themselves to create change in their lives. To live a richer, more alive life.

I thought about the people at the end of the email, people who are making investments in themselves, playing at their edges, in service of their lives.

I connected to them, in my heart.

And the energy in me shifted.

Motivation found me. It wasn’t a whack around the face bolt of electricity kind of motivation, it was a subtle, gentle willingness to show up and engage with my day differently, from a place of love and generosity.

The work I get to do is meaningful to me because I love making a difference in someone’s life. I love being a safe space for people to come, I love being able to support people in creating more of what they want and less of what they don’t. I love being able to bring a lens in which someone can look to see something that might just speed up their access to the thing they want. I get to be with someone in their LIFE. I get to help someone enhance their life. And I personally think that LIFE itself is the biggest gift we have. How can it not be meaningful to help someone make the most of it? To be someone who champions someone else in that way and helps them create possibility where they were not seeing it for themselves.

And one hour later I received a message from my first client of the day… You can see it too, it is the image attached to this blog post.

What I got to do today was connect someone to self-love, to a new pace of life, to a letting go of the fight, to a befriending of themselves, to a more peaceful heart.

Motivation doesn’t need to come first. You don’t need to find purpose through bigger more “worthy” extravagant actions. You can cultivate and create meaning in the day to day.

Go beyond the transactional activity on your to do list, and create meaning for it. Get into the practice of that. See through your thoughts of boredom and uninspired, and allow yourself to gently nudge back into motivation through connecting to the meaning of what you do.

Test it out, see what happens. And, if you still feel uninspired and de-motivated, perhaps it is time for you to be honest with yourself. What might you want to change that will have you connect to the aliveness within you? If you weren’t afraid to try, if you weren’t afraid to fail, what might you be doing today instead?

In loving service,

Lisa x