Here’s how January usually plays out:

The ball drops. People celebrate, stay up late, and stay true to their annual New Year’s traditions. The next day everyone’s a bit overtired, but still buzzing on the energy a new year brings.

A few days into the new year and things are still going strong. You’re starting up work again after (hopefully) some time off for the holiday season, and you’re motivated to make this year better for you both personally and professionally.

Great, right? Well, reality hits soon after this.

All that new year energy starts to fizzle. Those goals you’ve set for yourself suddenly feel wrong; they’re either too overwhelming to even think about working on right now, or you don’t have the bandwidth (for a variety of reasons) to put even a little effort into working on them. And that feels bad. Real bad.

You’ve lost your motivation, and you don’t know where to find it. Sound familiar? Well, you certainly aren’t alone. The best of us struggle with a drop in determination and worry how we’ll every dig ourselves out and move forward with intention.

On this episode of the Talk Copy to Me podcast, I talk with coach Diann Wingert all about maintaining momentum in all facets of your life. We’ll cover how important setting expectations and understanding your bandwidth are to not losing momentum in the first place, and most importantly, you’ll learn Diann’s trick about using a dimmer switch instead of losing your motivation completely.

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Listen to the episode and read the detailed show notes here: https://erinollila.com/maintaining-momentum-with-diann-wingert/
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Diann Wingert became a business strategist, coach, and mentor after a 20-year career as a psychotherapist.  Her mission is to help high-ability women become confidently ambitious by eliminating the beliefs and behaviors that hold them back.  She is the host of The Driven Woman Podcast, creator of The Boss Up System for female solopreneurs, and considers sarcasm an art form.

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Erin Ollila believes in the power of words and how a message can inform – and even transform – its intended audience. She graduated from Fairfield University with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and went on to co-found Spry, an award-winning online literary journal. When Erin’s not helping her clients write email sequences or improve their website copy, you can catch her hosting the Talk Copy to Me podcast and guesting on shows such as Profit is a Choice, She Built This, and Counsel Cast.

Learn more about her and how she works with her clients here. https://erinollila.com