The idea
How To Get Motivation exists because most advice in this area is written to make you feel something rather than to help you do something. It arrives as a quote over a sunrise, it lands well for about an hour, and it leaves nothing behind.
The premise here is the opposite one: motivation is unreliable by nature, and the useful work is building things that don’t depend on it. Routines that survive a bad week. Standards you set while calm. Commitments small enough that keeping them is realistic and frequent enough that they add up.
Why the site splits men and women
The underlying principles don’t change by gender. Sleep matters for everyone. Floors beat targets for everyone. What differs is the starting problem people arrive with, and the specific advice each group has been given for years.
Splitting the paths means we can be specific instead of writing for a generic reader who doesn’t exist. You’re welcome to read both — there’s nothing hidden on either side.
How this site makes money
We sell one product: The Sessions, six guided audio recordings we wrote and produced ourselves, for a single payment of A$29. That’s the entire business. Three rules govern it.
- The free advice comes first. No article on this site withholds the useful part to sell you the paid part. If you read an article and buy nothing, you should still leave with something you can act on today.
- You can hear before you buy. One full session is free on the product page. If the voice, the pace or the approach isn’t for you, you’ll know in five minutes and it will have cost you nothing.
- Refunds are simple. Thirty days, one email, no form and no questions about why. The terms page has the details.
We don’t run advertising, we don’t recommend other people’s products for a commission, and we don’t collect email addresses.
What this site is not
It is not medical, psychological or clinical advice. Several topics covered here — motivation, sleep, eating, low mood — sit close to territory where a doctor is the right person to speak to, not a website.
If you have been flat for weeks rather than days, if the difficulty extends across everything rather than one area, or if food or exercise has become a source of real distress, please talk to your GP. That’s not a disclaimer for legal reasons. It’s that the strategies here are designed for ordinary motivation problems, and using them on something else means losing time that would be better spent getting proper help.
Getting in touch
Corrections, disagreements and suggestions are all welcome — the contact page has the details.