Motivation is Overrated: How to Crush Your Goals Without It

In this episode of the Heal Nourish Grow podcast, Cheryl McColgan discusses how to stay on track with your 2025 goals, emphasizing the importance of consistency over motivation. She shares strategies for creating manageable goals, habit stacking, and balancing commitments to ensure success. Cheryl also highlights the significance of time management, mental tricks for habit formation and the value of rewarding progress. Personal reflections and life updates provide a relatable context for her insights. I She also shares her experiences and insights from a recent vacation, focusing on travel challenges, dietary choices, and fitness management. She discusses the importance of maintaining an active lifestyle while traveling, the balance between indulgence and health and the significance of consistency in fitness routines. Takeaways Motivation can fluctuate; focus on building habits instead. Consistency and commitment are key to achieving goals. Start with small, manageable goals to avoid overwhelm. Habit stacking can help integrate new habits into your routine. Evaluate your goals to ensure they are realistic and achievable. Balance your commitments to avoid setting yourself up for failure. Investing in time-saving solutions can enhance your wellness journey. Sleep is crucial for recovery and overall health. Use mental tricks to overcome resistance to starting workouts. Reward yourself for progress to maintain motivation. Baggage capacity issues can disrupt travel plans. Consistency in diet and exercise is key to health. Listening to your body is crucial for injury management. Aging affects fitness goals and recovery time. Balance indulgence with healthy choices while traveling. https://youtu.be/PJxtI424Rhw Episode Transcript Cheryl McColgan (00:01.134)Hello everyone, welcome to the Heal Nourish Grow podcast. And also happy 2025. I don't think I've gotten to officially say that even though there has been an episode out this year. Anyway, today I just wanted to chat with you about how to stay on track with your 2025 goals. A lot of people set New Year's resolutions or even if you don't set a strict resolution, there might be some things that you are trying to work on in the new year and this is one of my favorite topics because I feel like everybody thinks they want to wait until they get motivated to do something. motivation waxes and wanes. And I speak to this 100 % from experience because over the years, my motivation in area of health and wellness has been lacking. But that doesn't prevent me from doing the things I know I need to do and that I should do. And that's because I think motivation is really overrated. It's more about creating your habits and then having just consistency and commitment over motivation. And that's really what will help get you to your goals. And one of the things that I find and I haven't been doing much coaching lately. I'm actually thinking about opening that up again. So if that's something that you're interested in, please get in touch and let me know. You can just email me at info at heelnourishrow.com. But one of the things that I've noticed in the past, and I've heard many, many other coaches and people in the wellness space say this, that the thing that people kind of get hung up on the most, particularly with New Year's resolutions, is that they try to bite off way more than they can chew. And so what happens is for maybe the first couple weeks of the year, you stick with whatever your new routine is. I'm going to eat right, I'm going to exercise four times a week, I'm going to drink more water, all this. And so you might stay with it for a couple of weeks, but it all becomes very overwhelming. And so instead of moving forward, you just feel overwhelmed and you kind of quit altogether and not taking any of those habits where if you do some things like habit stacking, and I'll talk more about what that is shortly,...