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How to Do What You Don’t Want To Do…
Motivation is a strange thing.
Sometimes getting a new client or finishing a website or achieving a particular goal is very motivating – and other times you can be so worn out from all the efforts that you are not motivated anymore. You might just want to relax and then find that you can’t re-motivate yourself. This newsletter’s tip is to help with the times when nothing seems to motivate you and you’re dragging your feet - even on the most basic tasks. Take a day out to do everything you’ve been avoiding.
Do all those things that you don’t want to but really need to by.... 1. Have a list of all the items you don’t want to do or have been putting off.
You know what these are – and if you don’t, now is a good time to start a list. Make sure these are things that you can actually do: we often find that we’ve been avoiding something for months and we finally get down to the business of making it happen, setting aside a whole day perhaps, and discover that first we need to make a purchase or get information from someone else or there is something that will prevent us further. You don’t have to complete the whole task in order to put it on the list – just make sure it’s ready to go. 2. Start the day with something good.
You are not going to tackle all your “I don’t want to’s” unless you have some sort of encouragement. Figure out a way to make it a day you actually look forward to. On my ‘Don’t Want To Days’, I take some of the morning off. Sleep as long as I like, drink some good coffee, read a good book, write personal emails to friends, meander through Facebook, bake something, do nothing. Then around lunchtime I sail in with a clear mind and work steadily through until the evening – often times going far beyond my plans. 3. Space out the day with very short reward breaks.
If you’re anything like me, an hour into your major project you will suddenly want to give up – or you’ll feel you’ve done enough for the day. This is the lie that has prevented you before,
and you have to be ready to combat it. A two-minute walk outside in the fresh air (even if it’s raining or howling wind); a cup of very good coffee/tea break; reading a chapter of a good book; watching a portion of a favourite film. Make the break short (10 minutes or less), but make it good. You don’t have to take them, but you need to have them up your sleeve for when the de-motivation kicks in. 4. Finish the day with something good.
You need a reward for achieving something you’ve avoided for so long, and it helps all day to be thinking about what’s coming. Plan a night out with friends or family, or a comfy night in if you prefer. Whatever it is you enjoy doing to relax (and don’t always get to do), schedule it for later that evening. 5. Prepare yourself fully for the next day
Sometimes the sheer effort of slogging away at something you didn’t want to do for ages can make me feel (unfairly) as though you’ve done enough for the week. This can be completely frustrating. So get your mind ready for the next day by planning easy, comfortable, undifficult tasks. As you can see there’s a lot of planning involved. You may think that you don’t need to do all this in order to achieve so much, and if that’s the case I salute you and will cheerfully recognise you as the true master. But, if I may say so, you’re the one who’s been avoiding these tasks for so long. If you’re going to finally get them done and dusted, take all the help you can get.
