Even If You Don't Feel Like It
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Why does motivation not have to come before action?
Hello my friends, welcome back to the Ryan League podcast, where we love to keep things short and sweet for you each and every week. Today's episode is entitled Even If You Don't Feel Like It. Did you know that you get the same results from doing hard things when you don't feel like it, as you do when you do feel like it? Think about that. Your results. Do not care. About your feelings. You don't feel like going to the gym? Of course you don't. But if you went anyway? Your body wouldn't know the different. The weights don't check your mood. The treadmill doesn't ask if you're having a good day. Your muscles don't say, Oh, you're not feeling it today? Let me go easy on you. No, the work is the work and the results are the results regardless of how you felt when you showed up.
I think we've been sold this idea that motivation is a prerequisite for action that you need to feel inspired before you start. That you need to wake up with fire in your belly. That you need the right playlist, the right energy, the right environment, the right mood. And if all those things happen. Fantastic. But how often do you get that? How often are you gonna get perfect conditions? Then you gotta ask yourself the question like, Well what what happens when I don't have perfect conditions?
How does the concept of ‘behavioral activation’ explain acting before feeling?
Because I don't know anybody who feels motivated three hundred and sixty five days a year. There are going to be mornings when you wake up tired. There are going to be seasons when you're disappointed. There are going to be days when the thing you used to be excited about doesn't excite you anymore. And if your commitment requires your feelings to cooperate, you're going to have a hard time staying committed. That's why I think we've got motivation backwards. And hey, I'm a motivational speaker and so uh I mean it's like I I I'm I spend a lot of my days on this planet trying to motivate people. But Even as a motivational speaker, it's like I mean we can think. Motivation's going to create action. But that's that's actually not how motivation works.
A lot of times action. Creates motivation. You start moving and then the energy shows up. You start writing and then the ideas start flowing. You make the first phone call and suddenly the second one doesn't seem so bad. You start cleaning the room and twenty minutes later you've organized the entire closet. Sometimes the feeling Follows the behaviour. But you've got to start before you feel like starting. That's the whole game. Psychologists actually have a name for A version of this idea is called behavioral activation. One of the principles behind it is that we don't always have to wait for our internal state to change before we change our behavior. Sometimes changing what we do
What role does discipline play when feelings are unreliable?
Can help change. How we feel. In other words, you don't always have to feel your way into action. Sometimes you have to act your way into a feeling. Think about The most disciplined people you know. Do you really think they wake up every morning excited to do hard stuff? Of course not. Well, I say of course, I mean y y I don't know that you actually even No what these people are thinking, but sometimes you know, you you think about the five A. M. person, you go, Well, they they just wake up like that. It's like, Well Or if they made a decision. They were gonna wake up even when they Didn't feel like it. I mean Athlete training at five AM? Doesn't necessarily love five AM. They love what five AM produces. The salesperson making the fiftieth call doesn't enjoy getting rejected.
They enjoy what persistence eventually produces.
How should we treat feelings so they inform but don’t control us?
The writer doesn't wake up every morning with brilliant ideas pouring out of them. Sometimes they sit down, stare at the screen, and write something terrible until something good finally shows up. Discipline. is not feeling like doing something every day. Discipline is deciding that some things are too important. To be left up to how you feel today. And I want to be clear about something. Your feelings matter. Feelings make us human. They can tell us when we're hurt. They can tell us when we're exhausted. They can tell us when
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does motivation not have to come before action?
0:00–1:24
2
How does the concept of ‘behavioral activation’ explain acting before feeling?
1:24–2:55
3
What role does discipline play when feelings are unreliable?
2:55–3:54
4
How should we treat feelings so they inform but don’t control us?
3:54–5:08
5
Why is consistency more powerful than occasional inspiration?
5:08–6:00
6
What’s the difference between the ‘inspired’ writer and the ‘show‑up’ writer?
6:00–7:13
7
How can we move forward when fear, fatigue, or doubt are present?
7:13–8:54
8
What practical steps can I take the next time I say ‘I don’t feel like it’?
8:54–10:00