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This week, find a positive accountability partner! Or if you are looking for other ways to integrate positive accountability in your life, reach out and let us know! Social media @aj.afterbabyfit and @sweatandshineon or our websites with all our contact details afterbabyfit.com and sweatandshineon.com

Motivation runs out. It doesn’t just magically show up every day or week. Sandy studied the idea of motivation and behavior change during her masters. Motivation is felt as the positive and accountability is the negative.

When we have one on ones with our clients we have such a positive view of accountability yet our clients may start this conversation with a feeling of defeat that they “need accountability” to make anything happen. Accountability is like outsourcing part of part of your life to keep you on track. Intrinsic motivation is great but it’s not realistic to think you can keep them up. It is not a one size fits all, what works for you doesn’t work for everyone else.

Extrinsic motivation – motivated by rewards, consequences, or growth, power. If those things don’t work than accountability comes in to play. Accountability and habits is what can build the feeling of motivation. Where did we learn that accountability was a negative thing? Is it through childhood or grading that makes us feel that way?

Be the example for positive accountability and the practice makes progress mindset rather than the all or nothing. Coming back around the habits to make these healthy life improvements. If you want certain things to happen or grow, you need to practice, set those small goals, rather than feeling you didn’t achieve.

Instead of saying I’ll wait until Monday to start, you can actually start today. Take a deep breath, and begin, now.

Reasons you may lack motivation… LIFE. Stress, burnout, low self-esteem, poor sleep, anxiety, depression, the list goes on… these strip you of motivation. Everyday life can be what strips you of motivation.