Built for the Edge

E #505: Why Motivation Works — Why It Never Lasts (And What to Do Instead)


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What happens when motivation works… but never lasts?

In this episode, Kehla unpacks a pattern that runs quietly through the personal development and coaching industry — one that keeps people cycling through insight, activation, purpose, and burnout without ever actually relocating where decisions are being made from.

After listening to a conversation between two wildly successful entrepreneurs grappling with apathy, fulfillment, and “what’s next,” Kehla noticed something familiar: the solution wasn’t wrong — it was symptomatic.

Bigger missions. New purpose. Identity reframes. Emotional activation.

They create movement — but they don’t change what’s governing that movement.

This episode explores the difference between soothing experience and changing position.

You’ll hear why:

  • Feelings, motivation, identity, and purpose are effects, not causes

  • Awareness alone doesn’t equal authority

  • Most growth work resolves reality from inside its symptoms

  • Emotional states quietly end up governing life and business decisions

  • And why real relief doesn’t come from feeling better — it comes from standing somewhere else

    Kehla introduces the distinction between sovereignty and governance, the difference between being in a feeling versus seeing it, and why coherence isn’t something you create — it’s what’s left when nothing false is running the show.

    This isn’t an episode about fixing yourself, upgrading your mindset, or finding a bigger why.

    It’s about locating the place from which decisions are actually being made — and what changes when that place shifts.

    If this conversation resonates, Your Vantage Point is where this work continues — not as a framework to apply, but as a place to return to when you notice yourself slipping back into feeling-led decision making.

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