Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. I hope that you are all safe and well.

So this week I'm going to be answering some of my most frequently asked questions.

Over the last year, I have been delivering talks and virtual events and the Q&A section at the end,

whether I'm speaking to a big organisation, whether I'm speaking to leaders

in the team or more junior members, from careers events to students, I'm finding that I'm being

asked the same questions again and again and again. So I thought that it would be useful for me to

share some of those questions and answers with you all as well. So the first question is,

I often start things, but I find it difficult to stick with them and to complete things and to

see things through to the end. So this is something that comes up a lot. Often people will say that.

They say, you know what, starting something new, great, but actually life happens, things change.

I fall off the wagon and I just can't stay motivated to keep, yeah, to keep going with things.

So how can you, I guess, keep up that momentum?

So firstly, I think it's about understanding that the motivation that initially starts is never going to last.

I often talk about motivation, like being a match.

You like the match and then you have maybe a few seconds before the match blows out.

So that initial spark, that motivation, just acknowledging that and not expecting it to

stay, it's almost a bit of a contradiction or an oxymoron to say sustain motivation,

because I don't believe you can.

I think it's just an initial spark. So after that first bit, after the match is blown out,

then I actually think you need something else to keep you going, whether that's structure,

whether that's discipline, whether that's accountability, but actually you don't need

motivation to be able to complete things. You only need motivation to start.

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