Good day, my friend. Welcome to A Moment with Moj. Thank you so much for downloading the show. I am absolutely delighted to be here with you at the start of another week. Epictetus joins us today and Epictetus says, "Seek not the good in external things, seek it in yourselves."
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Good Day, my friend. Welcome
to Um moment with modes. Thank you
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so much for downloading the show.
I am absolutely delighted to be here with
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you at the start of another week. epictitis joins US today, and epictitis
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says seek not the good in external
things, seek it in yourselves. My
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friend, everything that we want is
already here. The goals, their dreams
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that you want are all ready here. You know, the knock on motivational
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sayings and and motivational speakers and such
is that the motivation doesn't last and you
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know they're they're not entirely wrong.
Things like motivation and discipline and will power.
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They get weaker, they waned as
the day goes on, and it's
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especially hard when we're looking add things
outside of us in order to keep us
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motivated. I'm in the habit of
losing the same five to seven pounds over
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and over again. When the number
on the scale gets to a certain point,
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I can contain my sweet tooth,
and when that number on the scale
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comes down to a certain number,
I relax said control on the sweet tooth
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and those five to seven pounds come
right back and the cycle begins. I'm
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using the number on the scale as
my motivation for proper eating. But I
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have to get away from that focus. I have to get away from focusing
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on that number and focus on why
I want to lose that ten extra pounds
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and I have to focus on the
thought of being healthier, the thought of
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feeling better in my clothes, the
thought of maintaining an active lifestyle and to
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live longer and enjoy my life with
my wife far more important than just the
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number on the scale. The same
is true for anything we want. The
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love you want, the success you
want, the inspiration that we want is
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already there inside us. There are
two types of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic.
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Extrinsic motivations are the tasks that we
do in order to get an external
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reward, and the easiest example is
money. I'm motivated to go to my
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job because of the money that they
pay me, but my motivation is based
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on how much money they're paying me. So if the money isn't that good,
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my motivation isn't that good, whereas
doing the consults or Horizon School of
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music doesn't make me as much money
as going to the factory, but my
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my intrinsic motivation helping somebody grow on
their musical journey keeps me motivated and inspired.
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I never get tired of doing consults. I don't have to sit out
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in my car for twenty minutes and
cyche myself up to do a consult.
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Find what inspires you on the inside
and all the external motivations and needs will
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take care of themselves and you'll find
that when you light yourself up on the
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inside, that motivation and inspiration doesn't
go away. carpay momentum, my friend.
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I'll talk to you tomorrow.