Shame and fear based motivation only gets you so far and burns you out Finding the intrinsic motivation for a task/practice is more reliable and consistent

Shame and fear based motivation only gets you so far and burns you out

Finding the intrinsic motivatioSticking to the running theme from yesterday, I’ll illustrate my point.

I’m no stranger to the aesthetic preferences of our culture and there are times when I run to ‘get skinny’. 

I drag on my leggings and lace up my trainers out of fear.

Fear of being rejected for being soft and curvaceous.

Fear of hearing taunts about my fatness (these come from childhood memories of being the chubby kid)

And just an overall sense of being wrong and running being the cure for that.