Musician and author, Cliff Beach, is our Choices guest today. His new book, Side Hustle & Flow: Shape-Up!, is a guide to transforming your health and fitness journey: a book every one of us needs to read and follow. To that end Cliff has written a guest post for us about motivation and the need for all of us to keep moving. Here's Cliff: Motivation by Cliff Beach Angela Duckworth, in her famous TED talk, explains that true grit is ultimate perseverance. For me, I define it as wanting to pursue and keep going long after the initial drive has faded. There’s a myth about motivation—that people miraculously love doing what they do all the time. Do you think Dwayne Johnson loves working out every day? Or that David Goggins wants to run in the snow or rain for five miles? Or that Oprah was excited about every interview she did throughout her entire career? More importantly, I’ve learned that the opposite of motivation is inertia, and the antidote is finding the smallest … [Read more...]