When I was a kid, my cousins and I would spend hours on our boogie boards in the ocean, riding waves and laughing and completely lost in it. And then one of us would look up... and way down the beach, further than made any sense, we could see our moms waving us back. The undertow had been pulling us the whole time. Quietly. Without us feeling a thing.

That is the drift. And it is exactly what Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy warn about in their book Living Forward. You don't end up somewhere bad on purpose. You just stop choosing. And the undertow of distraction and overwhelm and just getting through the week pulls you further from the life you meant to be living every single day.

In this episode I walk you through the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, why intrinsic is the only thing that carries you all the way, and I share my own three movie scenes... the specific, vivid moments I run through my mind every single morning to remind myself exactly who I am becoming and why it matters.

Then I give you four questions to build your own compelling why. Here they are:

One. Where are you right now, and where do you really want to be? If you were waving a magic wand over your body and could change anything about your health, what would change?

Two. How will it impact you emotionally, mentally, and physically when you reach that goal?

Three. What will you do more of, or what will you say yes to, that you are currently avoiding?

Four. How will reaching this goal impact your most important relationships?

Write your answers down. Then picture three movie scenes of you actually being that woman. Make them vivid. Make them specific. Make them yours.

You steer where you stare. Today we decide what you're staring at.

Let's Begin.

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