How I Stay Motivated

The $1 Million Diet was inspired by the most common question people ask me:

“How do you stay motivated?”

It’s a hard question to answer because my answer is always changing.

What made me walk into a gym 8 years ago is different today.

Motivation isn’t a constant. You’re always working on it.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized motivation isn’t what makes me show up.

Motivation gets me started. Discipline keeps me going.

Roleplaying as a Woman

In my early 20s I did a weird mental exercise by asking myself:

“Imagine you’re a woman–a perfect 10. The type of woman you want to have sex with, date, and marry. You have a ton of options, in the real world and online. If you (as this woman) met the real you…would you want to fuck you?”

Laugh at it, call it cringe. I don’t care.

That was enough for me to internalize I wasn’t the man I wanted to be.

Sure, I was making good money and I had a stable career. I had some things going for me.

But I knew I wouldn’t feel this fire just by looking at me the way I do when I see that perfect 10.

I wanted a woman to be turned on by every part of me: physically, mentally, socially, all of it!

I had work to do. I hit the gym.

But that’s when reality sets in.

Motivation lasts a minute.

Not literally but it’s pretty close.

Start doing your first set of squats and the burning fire inside you to transform your body for that hypothetical perfect 10 fades away quick!

…and you’re 10 minutes into your first day at the gym.

Shit.

Continue to rely on motivation and you’ll be lucky to last a week.

“You have to learn to be your best self when you’re least motivated.” -David Goggins

This is when you need discipline.

The ability to show up without motivation.

The $1,000,000 Diet

This roleplaying experiment I did with myself is what inspired my latest YouTube video.

It’s my way of proving that anyone can lose weight as long as they don’t rely on motivation.

If a million dollars can motivate you to lose weight, why can’t you motivate yourself to lose weight?

Why not do it…for you?

Remember, the Perfect 10 got me in the gym.

But I am the reason why I kept showing up to the gym.

“Discipline eats motivation for breakfast.” -Jocko Willink

If I quit going to the gym, I was giving up on myself.

I was giving up on becoming the type of man I said I wanted to be.

Unlock the ability to stay accountable to yourself and your life will never be the same.