<p><img decoding="async" title="Tom Connellan - motivation speaker and author" src="http://getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/tom-connellan.jpg" border="0" alt="Tom Connellan motivational speaker and author" vspace="2" align="left" />You probably have some positive changes you&#8217;d like to make in your life &#8212; in your career, relationships, or health and fitness. You know that if you make those changes you will be happier and more successful.</p>
<p>So why aren&#8217;t you already doing them?</p>
<p>Most of us have a pretty good idea of the steps we need to take to improve our lives. The real issue is overcoming inertia and taking the first step. Inertia tends to keep us in place, doing the same old things the same old way we&#8217;ve always done them. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/01/the-upside-down-way-to-boost-your-motivation-by-tom-connellan/" title="Permanent Link: The Upside-Down Way to Boost Your Motivation By Tom Connellan" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":362,"date":"2011-01-29T04:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2015-07-29T23:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T04:28:58","slug":"the-upside-down-way-to-boost-your-motivation-by-tom-connellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/01\/the-upside-down-way-to-boost-your-motivation-by-tom-connellan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upside-Down Way to Boost Your Motivation By Tom Connellan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tom Connellan - motivation speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/tom-connellan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tom Connellan motivational speaker and author\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\" \/>You probably have some positive changes you&#8217;d like to make in your life &#8212; in your career, relationships, or health and fitness. You know that if you make those changes you will be happier and more successful.<\/p>\n<p>So why aren&#8217;t you already doing them?<\/p>\n<p>Most of us have a pretty good idea of the steps we need to take to improve our lives. The real issue is overcoming inertia and taking the first step. Inertia tends to keep us in place, doing the same old things the same old way we&#8217;ve always done them. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/01\/the-upside-down-way-to-boost-your-motivation-by-tom-connellan\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Upside-Down Way to Boost Your Motivation By Tom Connellan\" 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\/362"}],"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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}