#511 The most replayed snippet of wisdom: How to build lasting motivation.

We often wait for motivation to strike, hoping it will magically propel us toward our dreams. 

But what if the key to lasting motivation is already within us?

Snippet of wisdom 78.

This is the most replayed snippet of wisdom. 

My guest and good friend Jamie Fair talks about how to create lasting motivation.

Press play to learn how to stop waiting for motivation and start building it, one bold step at a time.

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Episode Transcript

Agi Keramidas (00:01):
Welcome to Personal Development mastery
podcast, and this is anothersnippet of wisdom where I select
my favourite, most insightfulmoments from previous episodes.
Today's snippet is from myconversation with Jamie fair,
who is a speaker, author coachand a good friend of mine, it is

(00:22):
about creating lastingmotivation, and I trust that you
will find it insightful.

Jamie Fair (00:30):
Those obstacles that come up that you mentioned,
which always come up, I thinkthey are intentional. They are
part of the journey, and theyare opportunities for us to
grow. So those obstacles arethere for a reason. They're not
to get in our way, they're notto stop us. They're to cause us
to grow and change, to reachthat, you know, that thing that

(00:51):
we're searching for, that we'regoing after. So I don't think
motivation just happens. Many ofus are we're waiting for that
day when we feel motivated to goafter our dream or to go after
what we want, and I don'tbelieve that's going to happen
ever. Motivation doesn't justsuddenly come upon you one day.
It's possible, sure, but I thinkwe need to create motivation. So

(01:13):
if you'll excuse the brief plug,I co authored a book called A
journey of riches motivates yourlife, and in there I wrote a
chapter called Creating Lastingmotivation that you brought up,
and it is all about how youcreate motivation. And it starts
with having one of those dreams,having something that scares you
a little bit, particularly thoseare those the best dreams,

(01:35):
right? The ones like, ooh,that's scary to think about.
That's how we start to createmotivation is by having a dream
and then having the willingnessto go after it, even though it's
scary, probably outside of ourcomfort zone, and even though we
know those obstacles are comingin that chapter, I'll talk about
the three big detractors thathappen when we decide to create

(01:57):
motivation Now it's likeoverwhelm self criticism. And,
of course, fear. You know, fearis a big one. That's what gets
in our way a lot. Andpersonally, I think that fears
are meant to be pushed on almostalways, if there's something
that you want, but it's scary.
Then on the other side of that,fear is something amazing for
you. In my life, it was publicspeaking. I was utterly

(02:21):
terrified of public speaking. Iwould have rather died than done
public speaking or a podcastlike today, for instance, like
it was one of my two greatestfears in my life, heights and
public speaking. And yet, lifebegan to happen. All these
events started, you know,happening to me, where I was
required to do speakingengagements. Over and over

(02:44):
speaking events. I remember abig one for me was I had started
my job in leadership, and therewas a company meeting, and we
were all listening to a couplespeakers, and out of the blue,
someone said, Hey, Jamie, willyou come talk about that thing
that's happening in yourdepartment. And I had never
spoken in front of a groupoutside of my little meetings
with my own team, which werescary enough, and I had to get

(03:05):
past them, right? This is thatthat growth thing starts out
small, and it gets bigger andbigger and bigger and bigger and
and I got up in front of allthese people from this company,
and I just completely locked up.
I remember, just like I couldn'tthe words would not come out. I
was so scared, and peoplestarted to get a little restless

(03:27):
because I couldn't say anything.
And I realised, like I have twochoices. I can go sit back down
and be completely embarrassedfor who knows how long, or I can
find some way through this. Andin that moment, I pushed hard,
and I forced myself to speak,and once I got going, I was
great, I was funny. People werelaughing, but I had to get past

(03:49):
that initial fear first. Andover and over, things like that
happened, you know, I've workedmy way up to doing podcasts and
and then live podcasts, and thensome live videos. But it just
keeps escalating in my life,regardless of where I am in my
life, it just keeps escalating.
And don't think for a momentthat it doesn't terrify me,

(04:11):
because it does. I don't sleepthe nights before I stay up. You
know, I get sweaty during theseevery time, but I just don't let
it stopped me, because what Idiscovered was on the other side
of that fear is a love of publicspeaking, a love of sharing
these messages that I have, ofthese experiences that I had,
and how I can help others intheir lives. So I really want to

(04:33):
encourage people to whatever itis, whatever your fear is, to
not let it just sit there. It'snever going to change, as long
as you don't do anything aboutit. So I call it, you know,
wearing away at your fear,eroding on that wall of fear for
heights, for me, for instance, Iwill take opportunities to go do
things that are well outside ofmy comfort zone. I'll tell

(04:55):
another story sometime we havemore time, but, yeah, push
yourself. Just keep pushing. Nota lot. You don't have to do it a
lot, but a little bit all thetime. Wear that wall down.
Eventually it will be so low youcan just walk over it like
public speaking is for me, andyou'll find on the other side is
something beautiful andsomething you're probably
passionate about, and that's whythat fear exists in the first
place.

Agi Keramidas (05:19):
Thank you for listening. You will find the
full conversation with Jamiefair in Episode 302 The link is
in the episode description. Ifyou enjoy this podcast, can you
think of one person that wouldfind it useful and share it with
them? Thank you. Until nexttime, stand out. Don't fit in.