How can I motivate myself to do the boring hard work? I'm…
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How can I motivate myself to do the boring hard work?
I'm not looking for general advice, just personal tailored to my brain.
There are a few methods that don't work for me:
1. Rewarding myself: requires just as much selfcontrol as doing the hard work does so for me this cannot logically work.
2. Punishing myself: just not gonna do that. Again requires just as much selfcontrol and serves no purpose really.
3. Willpower bruteforce: I don't believe that willpower is actually a thing, I believe we make choices based on a mix of rational and emotional values and that mix may be distorted due to the emotional brain perceiving values bigger or smaller than they truly are.
4. "do only 1 minute of work and then stop". For me, I either actually stop after 1 minute which means I only do 1 minute of work per day, or I'm unable to trick myself and know and see right through that my actual intention is to do more than 1 minute so talking to myself like this does nothing for my productivity.
5. Writing down tasks into smaller parts. No, my todolist is alreaddy extremely big and messy, it would be even worse if I split things up further. Ugh the clutter.
6. Arbitrary selfimposed deadlines: I have a big enough history of simply ignoring and expiring those so nope this definitely doesnt work for me.
7. Accountability: so far Ive been disappointing my accountability partners so maybe not the best method for me either.
I'm not saying these things are bad or invalidating that they work for other persons. Just that for me they don't work.
So with all of this not working for me, how can I possibly motivate myself and selfmotivate myself?
#inspiration
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I'm not looking for general advice, just personal tailored to my brain.
There are a few methods that don't work for me:
1. Rewarding myself: requires just as much selfcontrol as doing the hard work does so for me this cannot logically work.
2. Punishing myself: just not gonna do that. Again requires just as much selfcontrol and serves no purpose really.
3. Willpower bruteforce: I don't believe that willpower is actually a thing, I believe we make choices based on a mix of rational and emotional values and that mix may be distorted due to the emotional brain perceiving values bigger or smaller than they truly are.
4. "do only 1 minute of work and then stop". For me, I either actually stop after 1 minute which means I only do 1 minute of work per day, or I'm unable to trick myself and know and see right through that my actual intention is to do more than 1 minute so talking to myself like this does nothing for my productivity.
5. Writing down tasks into smaller parts. No, my todolist is alreaddy extremely big and messy, it would be even worse if I split things up further. Ugh the clutter.
6. Arbitrary selfimposed deadlines: I have a big enough history of simply ignoring and expiring those so nope this definitely doesnt work for me.
7. Accountability: so far Ive been disappointing my accountability partners so maybe not the best method for me either.
I'm not saying these things are bad or invalidating that they work for other persons. Just that for me they don't work.
So with all of this not working for me, how can I possibly motivate myself and selfmotivate myself?
#inspiration
source
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