{"id":9798,"date":"2021-04-26T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2021-04-04T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T21:49:08","slug":"how-to-escape-your-motivational-trough-when-youre-flagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/how-to-escape-your-motivational-trough-when-youre-flagging\/","title":{"rendered":"How to escape your motivational trough when you\u2019re flagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say that while a lack of motivation is completely normal at times, it&#8217;s our perception that can be the deal breaker.\u00a0 Going for a few small wins and celebrating them can be one of the first steps to getting us out of that funk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20210209-how-to-escape-your-motivational-trough-when-youre-flagging\">How to escape your motivational trough when you&#8217;re flagging<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Early on, a friend of mine likened the pandemic to enduring a long-haul flight. Another compared it to running a marathon. Whatever the analogy, the message was the same: just keep our heads down and tough out the Covid-19 era because, at some point, it will end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say that while a lack of motivation is completely normal at times, it&#8217;s our perception that can be the deal breaker. Going for a few small wins and celebrating them can be one of the first steps to getting us out of that funk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ychef.files.bbci.co.uk\/1600x900\/p096j713.webp","fifu_image_alt":"How to escape your motivational trough when you\u2019re flagging","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6,130,281,60,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-9798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-happiness","9":"tag-mental_health","10":"tag-motivation","11":"tag-positivity","12":"tag-productivity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}