Design Sustainable Motivation: How to Build a Self-Renewing Drive System

Sustainable motivation: how to stay motivated long-term with a self-renewing drive system Science-backed guide to motivation habits, intrinsic motivation, and avoiding burnout using motivation psychology Walk away with a practical blueprint to build sustainable motivation you can actually maintain in real life

What You'll Learn:

• Understand the science of sustainable motivation and why cyclical (not linear) energy patterns are the key to long-term drive
• Learn how autonomy, competence, and relatedness work together to create intrinsic motivation that doesn’t depend on willpower alone
• Discover how dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin interact in motivation—and how to avoid chasing empty dopamine spikes that lead to burnout
• Map your day to your natural ultradian rhythms (90–120-minute cycles) so you know when to push and when to recover
• Design simple motivation habits and rituals that renew your energy instead of draining it over time
• Spot the four most common myths about motivation and replace them with evidence-based strategies you can trust
• Create a weekly recovery structure that respects circaseptan (7-day) rhythms so you can sustain effort without crashing
• Turn this episode into action by choosing one area of your life to apply the framework and committing to one small step this week