<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/Paige-Burkes-13.jpg" alt="Paige Burkes title=" />You’re sick and tired of the way things are and, this time things are going to be different.</p>
<p>You feel incredibly motivated. You can’t wait to get going and see results.</p>
<p>You write out your SMART goals and follow all the <a title="Browse our Goal Setting section" href="http://www.getmotivation.com/goals/goals_main.html">goal setting</a> rules. You visualize and get an accountability partner.</p>
<p>The first few days or even a whole week goes by and you’re fired up, following your plan and maybe starting to see your first few results.</p>
<p>Then reality sets in. You get busy. That fire that got you going starts to fizzle. Everything required by your goals starts to seem harder and harder to fit into your life. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/03/whats-your-why/" title="Permanent Link: What’s Your Why?" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1792,"date":"2013-03-10T23:49:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-02-11T00:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T05:44:21","slug":"whats-your-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/03\/whats-your-why\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Your Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/Paige-Burkes-13.jpg\" alt=\"Paige Burkes title=\" \/>You\u2019re sick and tired of the way things are and, this time things are going to be different.<\/p>\n<p>You feel incredibly motivated. You can\u2019t wait to get going and see results.<\/p>\n<p>You write out your SMART goals and follow all the <a title=\"Browse our Goal Setting section\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/goals\/goals_main.html\">goal setting<\/a> rules. You visualize and get an accountability partner.<\/p>\n<p>The first few days or even a whole week goes by and you\u2019re fired up, following your plan and maybe starting to see your first few results.<\/p>\n<p>Then reality sets in. You get busy. That fire that got you going starts to fizzle. Everything required by your goals starts to seem harder and harder to fit into your life. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/03\/whats-your-why\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: What\u2019s Your Why?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}