Keeping your passion alive

How do we keep that fire burning for what we do when it almost seems monotonous?

Whether you're a healthcare professional, an athlete, an accountant, an admin clerk, a runner, a weightlifter, or whatever you're doing in your life, you have to find your way…your reason for continuing.

Consistency is more important than motivation. Motivation is generally believed to be a short lived phenomenon that most of us lose fairly quickly. But how do we learn to be consistent and how do we learn to do new things on a regular basis?

To make something a reality, you have to decide why you're going to do it and then keep doing it. Make the time in your week, maybe set an alarm or scatter post it notes and be consistent. And this comes to every aspect of our life, whether we want to get more active, learn more, keep our house tidy, spend more time with our kids, whatever the goal is, you have to keep doing it.

I hear too often in clinical practice, that life just got busy. And I'm sure for many people that does happen, but the reality is we all have priorities.

And if you don't make your health or your goals, whatever they may be, a consistent priority, they will not happen.

Nicola Robertson

Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist