So your motivation is boo boo. I'm gonna just get right into it. Your motivation lacks, it sucks. It's inconsistent. And honestly, you have been in this pattern for a really long time. That roller coaster of, I'm so motivated, I'm doing what God is calling me to do. I'm putting in the effort, I'm putting in the work. I'm just going, going, going every single day. And then you plateau and now you're unmotivated, and now you're really not doing nothing and you keep pushing things off and all of a sudden. Years go by where you have been delaying what God is calling you to do, all because you've relied on your inconsistent motivation that deems either your ability or inability to do or God is calling you to do. Oh, I know. Heart check. You might be like, all right, angel, I was not ready for a punch to the gut today, my friend. I promise you it's tough Love. I say this because I want you to stop. Delaying. I want you to stop the back and forth wishy washiness of starting the business of writing that book, of finally going about that venture, that idea that God has placed on your mind a long time ago, and maybe you've started it and that's great. That's incredible that you did. But my friend, did we stop? Were we all of a sudden no longer consistent? Therefore, we didn't see growth. We didn't see fruit being produced from this. We're gonna talk about that today. Now, if this is your first time listening, hello. I'm Angel Murray, and as you can tell, sometimes I kick off these podcast episodes, giving tough love, giving the real, because we need that push. Other times it's softer. It's more emotional because sometimes we also need that level of relatability, entrepreneurship. Needs both the push, the encouragement, and the emotional relatability as well, so that you can do what God is calling you to do. And that's exactly what we talk about on the God Empowered Entrepreneur Podcast. If you're a returning listener, it's so good to have you here with me, friend, and I'm excited to do this necessary tough love of a heart check that a lot of us need, including myself. Here's the thing, we are constantly looking to feel motivated. In order to take steps forward, in order to make progress, and when we don't feel motivated, we are now no longer making progress. We are stuck in one step or we end up backtracking versus moving forward. Why this is not a finger point to you as a person. Let me just highlight that and give you that breath of fresh air. Your inability to always be motivated is not a reflection of you doing something wrong. I need to voice that because I know how easy it is to speak down to yourself as a dreamer, and when you can't stay motivated and you're questioning why you just can't seem to get consistent or remain productive, and therefore nothing is growing in your business. Your idea, your calling, you blame yourself. And you say, I'm the problem. It's who I am. It's how I am, and I guess I just can't do it. You know what that is? That is you allowing the enemy to take your inability to be consistently motivated and to flip it on you, to blame you as the issue to blame you as someone who just simply can't do it. So now we're struggling with insecurity. Now we're questioning what our purpose even is in life. Now we are dang near triggered with depression. It's real. I've been there and I know that you can relate to those feelings too. Here's the thing, I believe that when it comes to you progressing forward, you oftentimes do stand in your own way. You oftentimes are the thing that's keeping you from progressing in what God is calling you to do, from seeing growth, from seeing fruits produced, however. Sometimes it's not about your inability of actually doing it. It's about you trusting in your motivation to help you do it, versus trusting in God, that is what we need to fix. I think a lot of times as humans, we don't realize how much we lean and rely on our motivation to get up and do something, and if the motivation is not there, if it's gone, if we're just not feeling it today, we won't do it. And the only time we feel forced to push past our motivation and to do it anyway. Is when we are scared that our security is gonna be taken away. For example, you might not feel motivated to go to work, but you're gonna force yourself to go to work because that's the paycheck. That's where you're getting money. You might not feel motivated to do the dishes and to clean your house, but you're gonna force yourself to do it because a lot of times you feel secure in a clean, good looking home. And if it's a hot mess, your anxiety is through the roof. These are just examples and you can relate to either one or just pick an example in your own mind. At the end of the day, we rely way too much on our motivation in order to see growth. The reality is, my friend, your motivation is fleeting. And as human beings, we cannot rely on something that is fleeting in order to see growth or fruits being produced, you are not always going to feel motivated. You shouldn't expect yourself to always feel motivated. That is the challenge, is you still taking action. You taking steps consistently in doing what God is calling you to do, putting in effort daily, in growing your business, putting in a consistent habit, and finally writing that book and finally getting healthy and finally reaching that goal, you have to overcome the challenge. In the simple fact that you're not always going to feel motivated to do it, and if you're constantly looking for motivation to help you do it, then you will fail. I normally do not like the word fail. I don't prefer to use that terminology because I tend to not believe that something is an actual failure, but more so a learning lesson. But in that statement, I just needed to shoot it to you straight because. You are listening to this episode because you struggle with relying too much on your motivation and you can't seem to work up enough motivation, and you're wondering what's wrong with you, and you're wondering why you can't grow. You're not growing because you're trying to rely on your motivation and you're setting yourself up for failure versus success in what God is calling you to do. This is what I'm starting to see is what separates extremely successful people from people that just can't seem to get that business, that idea, that thing off the ground. There's a lot of differences from. Effort and consistency and testing and trying and seeking guidance from wise counsel or coaches. Yes, yes, yes. But there was also one big differentiator, which is successful. People didn't rely on just their motivation because they knew that it was fleeting. They showed up even when they were not motivated. They kept being consistent even when they were not motivated. They kept going even when they did not feel like it. Now, here's a question. How, how do you keep going when you don't feel like it? How do you be consistent when you're tired? How do you continue to do what God is calling you to do when you have no more motivation? Or your motivation is constantly back and forth. I recently saw a post by entrepreneur and business guru, Cody Sanchez. You can look her up on Instagram. She posts a lot of really great content. She has been in the game for a long time, is a millionaire. Huge inspiration. Now, she put up this reel the other day and I'll link it, by the way, in the description or show notes down below, because I gotta give credit where it's due. She posted this reel. That was creatively showing the difference between motivation and discipline and the visualization of this Instagram reel I thought was so creative and a beautiful representation of the difference between the two and why you cannot rely on your motivation. Instead, you have to learn to rely on your discipline. Now, I wanna take that and take it a step further by implementing God into more of that picture. In order to keep going when your motivation lacks, you need to rely on your obedience, not on your motivation alone. Obedience. You obeying what God is calling you to do then produces the skill of being disciplined within you. So if you're like, okay, wait, what did angels say? How do I keep going when my motivation isn't there? Pivot to your thinking from, I need to feel motivated to do this, to I need to be obedient. And that's why. I'm doing this huge difference, but now we're at the point where we're like, all right, well, how do I work up the will to even be obedient? Because at the end of the day, God gives us free will. He does not force you to obey what he's calling you to do. He gives you a choice. So you have to learn how to make the choice to be obedient in the first place so that you can continue doing what God is calling you to do. How do you do that? How do you find that will first thing God said. So that's it. You find that will by remembering and believing in the fact that God said, so if God told you to do something. Then that alone should be enough for you to do it. A lot of times we're looking for more answers. We're looking for more confirmation. We're looking for more clarity. We're looking for all of this stuff when we know deep in our spirit that God has called us to do this, and we are simply using all of our questions and excuses as a way unintentionally to disobey what God has initially called us to do. I know it's heavy. But that's a heart check that a lot of us need God telling you to do. It should be enough. All of those questions, the why, the how, the what ifs, all of those that is you accidentally telling God that it's not enough. His answer, what he told you to do, it's not enough and you need more. Who are we to tell the creator of the universe of our human? Bodies of our biological makeup, of every living thing, existing thing in this world, the same Lord yesterday, today, and forever. Who are we to tell him that what he told us isn't enough? Sometimes we need to reflect on our discontent with God because our follow-up questions. I know you got'em and I understand I got'em too. But if we're not careful, those follow up questions could be the exact reason that prove to God that what he initially told us to do isn't enough for us to actually do it. And right now he could be trying to challenge your faith and trust in him to do it anyway, because you trust in him telling you to do it. And that being enough. You believing that everything else you're wondering about will get figured out as long as you keep moving forward consistently in doing what he's calling you to do. The fact that God told you so should be enough for you to have the will to do it. And if it is not, then that is a call for you to check your relationship with him, where it needs to grow, where trust needs to be built. Where the priority of him needs to be first before everything else. That is a conversation between you and God. Second thing to remember, to help you to find the will to be obedient in doing what God is calling you to do. The people that are waiting for your gift, your idea, your business, your book, to plant a seed to spark the transformation that needs to happen in their life. They're waiting on you. Your family, who you want to financially help, who you want to show up as a leader for you want to pave the way for your children. They're waiting on you. God has already set apart the specific people that are to be impacted by your leadership and your delay is delaying that process. That impact, that change, that transformation. One of the things that I've done more recently, whenever I struggle with the will to obey what God is calling me to do, I don't wanna show up. I'm tired. I don't wanna put an effort. One of the things that I remember to help me keep going is that I envision one day getting certain family members out of debt. I envision setting my future children up for success. When it comes to their college being paid for, if they want to go to college, when it comes to demonstrating for them what it means to be financially free through God, when it comes to the people that I feel called to impact, those that have been sitting on an idea. That they haven't started or they started it, but they stopped and they can't scale it. Those people that are called to leadership and what will happen when they feel impacted enough to finally move forward in what God is calling them to do. All of these factors, they help bring back the will for me to continue to be obedient in God because people are waiting on me and rather than seeing that as something that gives me pressure. I see it as something that gives me purpose. It gives me a beautiful responsibility. I was chosen in this regard, and guess what? My friend, so are you. Last thing to help you to find the will to be obedient in doing what God is calling you to do consistently is to remember that your future you. Is waiting on you. A lot of times we get so stuck in the present. We are so caught up in our circumstances and the problems we're going through in this current season that it becomes really difficult to believe in the future version of ourselves that we see. I know that you have that vision there of that someone who's more confident, someone who is more financially free, someone who is more mentally free in God, someone who is a trailblazer, someone who reached that goal, you. Envision a future version of you to some degree. But let me ask you this, is that just a vision that you're painting in your mind, or is it a reality that you truly do believe in? There's a difference. Sometimes we need to question our belief in something. Do we actually believe that we can do that? That we can get there? Because if we really do believe in that. Naturally that's going to spark the will for us to be obedient in doing what God is calling us to do so that we can get there. Not so that it's all about how we want our future selves to be, but so that we're stepping into the future version of ourselves that God wants us to be based on what he's calling us to do. Right now, I need you to yourself. My future me is waiting on me, but do I believe. That she's real. Do I believe that he's real? When you really believe that there's a spark, there's a fire in you to work up the faith to go all in towards that. Listen, I know it's tough. I know that when you don't feel like doing something, it's really hard to force yourself to do it. I understand. It's easy to not do it. It's easy to push things off. It's easy to delay, but God doesn't call you to what's easy. Oftentimes, he calls us to what's hard because that is what forces the change in us that he needs to see, that he has been calling us towards for a really long time now. And when you get tired, when you find yourself burning out, do a body check, do a spiritual check, it's okay to rest. Take a Sabbath. It's okay to take breaks, that's fine, but how do you do that without putting your business, your idea, your book on a hiatus on this delayed break? If God isn't calling you to pause and take a break, then it's necessary. It's vital. For you to keep going. Why? For the very reasons we talked through today, because God said so. Because there are people waiting on you and because your future you is waiting on you. So stop waiting for your motivation to be consistent and start relying on your. Obedience in what God is calling you to do. The time is now. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope that this uplifted you and if you need any other inspiration today, we got a whole backlog of previous podcast episodes that you can listen to for the first time or re-listen to, to really build back up the drive to do what God is calling you to do. You enjoyed this episode today? Share it with a friend, text it, email it. To someone that you know could use this today. In the meantime, I'll see you next week.