This is not a Monday Motivational Quote Post

‘Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m not a big fan of the whole Monday motivation quote thing, there’s nothing less motivational than reading words that say ‘you can do this’ with no practical actionable steps to help you get there.

Sometimes our inner critic is already berating us to get moving, make change, start the diet, get to the gym, do the thing we think equals happiness/success. Then the Monday morning quotes start to fill our feeds telling us we need to change, to more, achieve more. You absolutely don’t. You are perfect the way you are, you are on your own journey, moving at your pace.

The motivational quote is really it’s a lazy social media marketing ploy, there’s nothing easier than googling a quote, copy paste. A way for brands to break up their feeds of adverts and pat themselves on the back thinking they’ve given their audience ‘valuable content’.

Also why does motivation have to start on Mondays? 🤷‍♀️

So this is NOT your Monday motivation.

I’m not saying get out of your own way, but prompting you to have a think today as to what is it that’s holding you back on doing something you wanna do, try or the small change you want to make?

There is just one rule ❗️ Approach this with curiosity and self compassion, be kind to yourself, this isn’t a time from the critic to voice its opinion.

Maybe heading out for a walk and doing this will help, something about the rhythm of walking helps me find clarity.

1. Choose the thing you want to do/try/change.

2. The gently ask yourself, what is holding me back?

3. Recognise if the critic appears, if it does, no big deal we all have them. ‘I appreciate your input, but it won’t serve me to make change, I’m trying a different approach’

4. Back to the question. You’ll soon start to see some of your blocks. Maybe it’s you don’t know where to start, maybe you need support, maybe it needs to be broken down into actionable steps.

Now you have some ideas on how to proceed. See. You don’t need that quote to motivate yourself, you just needed a little more information.

Have a great Monday