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Find An Accountability Partner
Imagine how you could transform your relationship with your vendors for example (accountant, lawyer, employees, etc.) by becoming accountability partners.
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Places That Spark Creativity
Similar to Steve Jobs's approach of holding walking meetings to get the creative juices flowing, try to go to an offsite place that inspires you to be creative and focused.
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Close Open Loops
Even if it goes against the most popular time management approaches, consider starting your day with working on tasks that are energy-sucking.
Take advantage of your most productive time of the day and force yourself to delegate it, delete it, or complete it. Once all of these open l...
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Get the Ripple Perspective
When you have a task that you don't enjoy, dedicate a few minutes to write down:
- How the task fits into the bigger picture.
- The impact on other people, dependent tasks, and clients.
- How the task fits into your goals.
- The long-term worst-c...
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Follow Through
Make follow-through a core value by developing an image of yourself as someone who follows through:
- Promote your core value of follow-through to others. It will become much harder to not follow through.
- Practice following through on all of your small commitments. These small ac...
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Use the Chameleon Effect
When you lack motivation, sit next to a focused co-worker you don't know that well. This will help you because:
- You feed off the other person's concentration: we tend to copy the posture, gestures, facial behaviors of people around us.
- You'll try to be a good role model:...
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Pre-commit
Do it especially when you know you're going to procrastinate. This means:
- That you have to decide what you're going to do. Be clear about the timing of your tasks.
- That you have to plan when and where you're going to do it.
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Take a Daily 15-Minute
Studies show that taking a walk (especially where there's nature involved) helps restore our brain's ability to block distractions because it allows our mind to wander.
Counterintuitively, mental fatigue isn't caused by the exhaustion of the part of our brain that focuses. It is actually...
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Work Out Before Hard Decisions
A consistent exercise regimen has a significant positive impact on willpower.
When you have a tough choice to make and execute, go to the gym for 30 minutes in order to get your heart rate up and feel more energized.
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Reconnect With Your Purpose
When you lack motivation, take some time to visualize the parts of your work that inspire you the most.
Studies show that having a purpose leads to being happier at work, which leads to being more productive. If you do something you love, you'll have a reservoir of vitality to dr...
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Create Accountability
Here's how you can build on your accountability habit:
- find an accountability buddy to help you achieve your health goals;
- create accountability by using an app that sends you daily reminders, like Headspace or Calm for meditation, Noom for tracking what you eat or Fitbit t...
An accountability ritual
At the start of the week, send an accountability partner what you plan to accomplish by the end of the week—and, when the week is done, follow up with them to let them know how things went.
Putting up an accountability plan
- Choose a friend who wants to achieve a similar goal (an accountability buddy) and make a plan. Accountability might mean checking-in once or twice a week to see how you’re doing.
- An app is a great way to add accountability to your day, because
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