Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions about motivation.

“Srdjan, how do I stay motivated?” they say. “How do I get back on track? Why do I keep losing motivation?”

Valid questions.

It seems as though many of us have trouble keeping ourselves motivated. We have good intentions. We want to achieve great things, we want to reach our goals, but too often we lose our rhythm. We stumble and can’t seem to find the focus and motivation to jump back up and keep pushing.

A recent study has found that 92% of people don’t achieve their new year resolutions.

Think about your last resolution.

You were probably super pumped to get started. Motivation and excitement was brewing inside of you. You exploded off the starting blocks without a worry in your mind.

But suddenly you hit a bit of a roadblock. You started feeling the resistance of the wind and the unevenness of the ground underneath you. So you slowed down. You stumbled a bit. And you just couldn’t regain your balance. So you slowed down. You started seconding guess yourself. You started looking for reasons to stop. To justify why quitting was the best option.

And you let the resistance of life overcome you.

92% of us experience this on a consistent basis. We start off strong, then lose focus, lose motivation, and never regain our rhythm. And so the goal gets swept under the carpet, possibly never to resurface.

The truth is, life does a damn good job of testing us.

It regularly throws curve balls our way to see what we’re made of. It puts up obstacles to see just how serious we are about achieving our goals and our dreams.

Many of us, unfortunately, let those curve balls throw us off our path.

And we never have what it takes to get back on and continue our journey.

Today I want to change that. I want to give you two very powerful motivation tools that you can use on your journey to a better body. There’s some homework involved, but it will be well worth your time. I promise.

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A quote is powerful.

Although merely a collection of words and phrases, a quote can sometimes be the tipping point that inspires and cultivates greatness in an individual.

It can lead to action. And action can lead to change.

Although short and simple, quotes can create movement. An internal revolution of sorts.

Originating from some of the most brilliant and inspiring minds the world has ever seen, they never stop circulating. They are recorded and kept in the (now digital) books of time because they help propagate a powerful cycle of inspiration. Those who read them become inspired to do great things and those who do great things use their own words to inspire future generations.

It’s a beautiful thing of perpetuity and I think it’s a worthy cause to support the propagation.

In an effort to help spread the virus, I’ve put together a collection of 105 of my favorite health and fitness quotes. They may not all be fitness related, but there is an element in each quote that makes it applicable to any area of your life. I hope they will provide the motivation and inspiration you need to build a better body and live a better life.

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Motivation.

The word alone can be intimidating.

We know it’s the key to taking action. It’s the steam that powers the train to success.

But how do you get it? More importantly, how do you maintain it? How do you keep it from disappearing, often leaving us overwhelmed with laziness and self-doubt?

Motivation is typically the bottle neck.

No matter what our abilities, talents, or skills allow for, we can only do that which we are motivated to do.

Without motivation we have nothing. We are nothing.

Nada.

So here’s what I’m going to do.

I’ve put together a list of 18 motivational strategies that I’ve used (and continue to use) to keep my motivational engines revving. Feel free to try them out.

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Do you know what a virus is?

A virus is contagious. Infectious.

A virus is not something that can sustain life on its own. It needs a host cell to survive. When inside the host cell, it releases genetic instructions which contain the information needed for the virus to replicate.

To spread.

In today’s day and age we’re all aware of the viral effect.

Ideas. Thoughts. Movements.

They all spread like a virus. From host cell to host cell it goes until it either wins or dies off.

The idea of a virus seems threatening. Dangerous even.

But it’s not necessarily all bad. A lot of viruses are good. Some are essential. Some spread and die off. Some inspire. Some cause social outbreak and controversy.

But all viruses essentially lead to one thing: Change.

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Regret is such a useless emotion.

The fact is that you can’t change the past. What’s done is done.

But what you can do is learn from your mistakes and, for the sake of this post, the mistakes of others.

Recently I put up a link on my Facebook Page to a very interesting (and now popular) article that was titled Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The article was written by an Australian nurse name Bronnie Ware who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives.

Bonnie often asked her patients in their last weeks if they had any regrets from their past and, if given the chance, would they go back and do things differently.

The results she recorded have now been passed around the world and she even wrote a book on the topic.

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Motivation.

Such a powerful word.

It’s something we all want but find hard to find. Hard to dig up. From within.

If there is one thing that’s keeping us from achieving the results that we’re after, it’s lack of motivation. We may be in possession of the best training and dieting methods, but if we don’t have the motivation to take action, there is simply no hope.

So how do you get motivated?

Some people are very visual – they respond best to when they see something. Others are more auditory – they respond best when they hear something that puts them in the right state of mind.

Regardless of which one pertains to you, you’ll find that videos are a great mix of visual and auditory ques that have the power to put you in a state of action.

As we move deeper into the information age, we are empowered with technology that gives us instant access to an unlimited supply of motivational videos.

Think YouTube.

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