220: Motivation & Inspiration

Here’s a short, actionable and hopefully  thought provoking episode for you today! I chose to discuss inspiration and motivation because those are largely the purpose and intention for the Expand Online Summit (which is coming up in just a few weeks!) It’s all about inspiring you to take action on your dreams and your ambitions and giving you the motivation to get started even if you don't have everything figured out. If you’re not on my email list, click here to sign up now so you can register for the summit as soon as registration comes out. Internal Motivation This is probably one of the hardest things for us to do… motivate ourselves internally without an external force. Some ways to be internally motivated are to provide yourself with your own rewards. Such as… if I complete this then I get to do this if I do this, then I am going to buy myself that Internal motivation is when you provide the shiny object for yourself.  We have to want it, whatever that thing is, it really just has to be important enough. It has to be something that you are striving for. I tend to think of it as something experiential, it's more the spa, the vacation, those kinds of things that you are rewarding yourself with! I also believe that the clock is a good tool to use to motivate yourself. if I get this done by two o'clock, then I can go for a walk if I get this done before the kids are home from school, then I can play a game with them It is your internal motivation that says if I do this in this amount of time, then perfect. I am off to the races and I'm able to do my reward. External Motivation External motivation is other people or other things motivating you. These can be your family and friends, these could be influencers, these could be coaches, this could be anything or anyone! They just need to be somebody else who dangles that carrot in front of you and you have to accomplish something in order to be able to actually get that carrot. While I don't love fear of missing out as a motivator, FOMO can act as a motivator. If you see everybody else launching their courses and you're sitting there saying “I don't feel like it” ~ allow their enthusiasm to motivate you to do things that you don't necessarily feel comfortable with or that you don't feel ready for or that you're insecure about. Use other people's energy. That's really what external motivation is all about ~ using other people's energy to motivate yourself to do something that you know you need to do anyway. Inspiration Where can we get inspiration? Nature Nurturing Reading Watching YouTube / TV / Streaming Getting inspired can take you far… but be sure that you don't look for inspiration from competitors or people who are doing the same type of work that you are! Get inspired by things that are outside of business. It's a lot easier to work in our business on the things that we're passionate about when we are inspired, which is why I think it's important not to spend too much time looking at what other people in our field are doing. It doesn't benefit you to see that someone else is launching a group program when that's what you want to do; put your blinders on to them. Now, if you see a personal trainer that you follow or admire who is launching a group program, that's a great inspiration because you're like, oh well, they're just like me, they were doing private lessons and now they're doing something group and there's no conflict of interest, there's no oh they they're going to get all of my clients or things like that because they're in a different industry, they're in a different vertical, It makes it a lot easier. Avoid trying to get inspired by people who you could see as competitors, even if they really aren't. Now let’s wrap up with ths: It is possible to have the success that you are looking for! That's what we look for with inspiration… looking at what others are doing to help fuel us and get us internally motivated. From there we can seek outside motivation (and accountability) to see this idea through. Nothing that we do and create online lives in a vacuum. Everything is continuously building upon other things, whether they're your content, your products, your services, or other people's products, content and services, it's all an ecosystem. So when you add something new to this online space, you are elevating this online space and you are creating your own impact. The only way that you're going to add something to that space is to be inspired and motivated and follow through. Follow through is the secret sauce to everything. It is the reason why there are people who have launched hundreds of courses and there are people who haven't even launched their first, even if they started on the exact same day! Follow Through. Follow Through. Follow Through. Make it a point to use that inspiration and that motivation to get something out into the world. Connect with me! https://www.instagram.com/jaimeslutzky/ and book a free call https://callwithjaime.com It's time! Round 3 of the Online Music Course Accelerator is open for application. 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