Day 1: Find Your Real (Not Pretend) Motivation | 30-Day Weight Loss-athon

Posted on by Michele Connolly
01 Apr

Welcome to Day 1 of the 30-Day Weight Loss-athon! Let the fun begin. 🙂

We only have 10 minutes, so I’m going to get straight to today’s action task. This task will provide fuel to fire your motivation for the month ahead. I suggest you read through the steps first, then take 10 minutes to work through the steps.

And because we only have 10 minutes, you need to move fast, act quickly and stop over-thinking. Just throw yourself in. Ready?

What You Need:

Step 1

Remember the 52 Weight Loss Missions sample you downloaded? If you haven’t already, please read pages 6, 7 and the top of page 8.

These pages talk about your genuine, fire-in-the-belly motivation for losing weight. Not why other people want you to lose weight. Not why you think you should lose weight. But the desire deep inside you. This is what we want to uncover.

Step 2

Write at least 20 endings to the sentence below. Write fast. Don’t censor yourself. Let your pen go where your critical, analytical mind might not let you.

I want to lose weight because…

Step 3

Now read back over your answers and pick one or to two that excite you.

Don’t be surprised if they aren’t the reasons you’ve been giving yourself for losing weight. If you’ve struggled to lose weight, then there’s a good chance your supposed reasons are not very powerful.

What you’ve just uncovered is a powerhouse of motivation. Let’s make sure we use it…

Step 4

Write the exciting reason(s) from Step 3 on some post-its, and put them in several places you’ll see them regularly, eg:

  • On your bathroom mirror
  • In your wallet
  • In your diary
  • On your computer
  • On the fridge door.

Let these reminders of your real motivation drive you over the next month.

Check in!

And you’re done! Be sure to leave your comment below to check in and stay accountable.

See you back here tomorrow.

Michele Connolly

Michele Connolly helps people move from procrastination to action. She believes that taking action on your priorities makes you a happier person. Michele is the founder of Get Organized Wizard and creator of tools for business, home, and personal organization. Her programs are used by tens of thousands of people worldwide.

566 thoughts on “Day 1: Find Your Real (Not Pretend) Motivation | 30-Day Weight Loss-athon”

  1. Pam Kiern says:

    I want to be selfish this time. It is time to take care of me. I don’t want to continue to take all the medications that I do now for High blood pressure, anti depressants, and pain pills and valium to sleep. I want to walk and do things. I want to be a healthy size. I want to be around and healthy for my grandkids someday. I want to better control my fibromyalgia. A better sex life. :0) Just an all around better me.

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  2. Cindy Elam says:

    Checking in! I was only able to list 17 things, the recurring theme being looking better (shopping for cute clothes in “normal” stores, being able to wear cute shoes), getting healthier (not on any prescription drugs and don’t want to be!), and feeling more self-confident (liking myself, being confident enough to start promoting my business more).

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  3. Lynne Saine says:

    I have erased myself from family photos because of my weight. I didn’t even want to stand in photos for my own Daughter’s wedding. I want to lose wait and feel confident enough to stand in the front row when pictures are taken. Instead of hiding in the back! Most of my top reasons for wanting to lose weight areere kind of vain too

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  4. Dale Sanchez says:

    I finished this assignment. It was hard at first to just be really honest about the reasons I want to lose weight, but I did. I have chosen several and have them everywhere, including listed on my computer where I can see them every day. They include:
    I want to be happy again, I want my daughter to not be embarrassed of me, I want to do my hobbies again, like gardening, walking and exercise, I want to not be in pain everyday, and mostly I just want to be able to go places again, have friends again, and most of all, be able to go back to work again. I want to not be depressed anymore! I have a lot more, but these are the biggest and hardest to admit. I want to look good again and feel good about myself!
    To tell the truth, I feel that I have lifted some weight off my heart just admitting this.

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  6. Missy Hanning says:

    I want to lose weight to feel like I have self control again and to look good in a swim suit again. After having my son 3 years ago I feel like I have lost control of everything. Weight was never really a problem before and now I find myself eating less healthy and emotional eating. When I don’t feel like I have control of a situation or don’t know what to do I go to the cookies or the chocolate.

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  10. Kristina Carr Pauley says:

    I was really excited about Day 1. Making a list of twenty sentence endings was really easy until I got to seventeen. So, I cleared my head for a minute and three more reasons came to me. All of my reasons are great ones! But I, like alot of other people, want to be able to walk into my closet and put on anything that’s in there and not have to take it off because it just doesn’t look or fit right. It’s like really waiting that great looking fruit salad but having to settle for just a banana. : )

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  11. Samantha De Bondi says:

    My biggest reason for losing weight. Since having my double mastectomy, when I look down all I see is a big belly. I would really love to look down and just see a little bump. I am very happy being chubby, I just don’t want to be this big.

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  20. Emma Craig says:

    This was a great task… I can’t believe that what I thought (was saying) was motivating me really wasn’t. After going over my list and It just jumped out at me and slapped me in that face as if saying ‘Hello have been here the whole and you keep looking past me…’ I am so excited about this 30 days more then I have been in the last couple of years. 🙂

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