How Pressure & Expectations Impact Your Motivation

The Innovative Therapist

Episode 71. What does March Madness have to teach us about our relationship to food and our eating habits? In this episode of the Motivation Made Easy podcast you will find out! What to Expect In This Episode What watching March Madness basketball teaches us about motivationHow we can understand the role of diet culture, pressure and body shame on our eating habits by looking at other experiences of pressure and expectationsHow to reduce excessive pressure to improve internal motivation for the changes you want to make in your lifeA fun fact about a basketball players eating habits Do you ever worry that you are wasting your life? I definitely did. In fact, I wrote that in my journal many years ago when I was in the middle of the diet-binge roller coaster ride. I woke up every day thinking about food, my body, and what I would eat that day to “be healthy”The notebooks I had filled with calories and points could fill up a spare bedroomSocial events and vacations immediately prompted the thought “they will notice I gained weight” or “I need to lose weight by then”Deep down I knew I wasn’t living life the way I wanted to, but I didn’t know how to pull myself out of it. If this is you, I want you to imagine what it would feel like to feel empowered in your body and proud of your choices on a consistent basis. I promise you, it isn’t too late. Dieting steals our motivation. It makes us ineffective. It keeps us spinning our wheels in a system that was never built to work. If you are ready take the first step to motivating yourself with what matters to you, download my free Create Powerful Motivation guide (which is quite beautifully designed if I do say so myself), and walk through the 3 simple steps to create motivation that works for YOU in 15 minutes or less. You will get a simple formula to write ONE SENTENCE you can use to motivate yourself on a daily basis. You can write it on your bathroom mirror, put on the background of your phone, or just read it and repeat it in your mind. Look, I know how much it hurts to live a life worrying you are missing out, not stepping into the person you were truly meant to be, vibrant, passionate, curious, vulnerable, and brave. You can listen to the podcast all day, but taking that first step, putting pen the paper (or typing on your phone) is required for true lasing change. It’s time to start living my friend. It’s 100% free, so what are you waiting for? Grab your free copy of the guide today at DrHondorp.com/Motivate March Madness, Sandwiches, and Internal Motivation He looked so incredibly happy, relaxed, and confident. The dude was clearly having the time of his life. Who am I talking about? Doug Edert, guard on Saint Peter's University basketball team, of course. You may or may not know who he is. But prior to this March Madness tournament, I'm almost sure you didn't. Doug is on the Saint Peter's University basketball team. A team that recently became the first 15 seed to reach the Elite 8. In the games I watched, Doug looked happy and incredibly relaxed. He appeared to be having fun, and simply enjoying the challenge and the opportunity. The Freedom of Low Expectations St. Peter's had already accomplished so much by making the tournament. They had only made it once before in school history, back in 2011. St. Peter's is a private Jesuit university located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The school has 2,637 students. The Pressure of High Expectations For comparison, the University of Kentucky, who lost to Saint Peter's in the first round as a 2-seed (and one of the top favorites to win the entire tournament) has an enrollment of 22,227. As the game went on, and it became clear that Saint Peter's very well may win this thing, you see the Kentucky players getting more tense, less relaxed. Certainly not having fun. When Doug Edert and Saint Peter's went on to continue to the next game,