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Getting Motivated to Start a Project
- Increase your reason to start a project, by increasing the value of starting it.
- Increase your expectancy of succeeding at that project.
- Decrease your reasons to delay, by increasing urgency, using a deadline.
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When you’re sufficiently motivated to accomplish something, you’ll move heaven and earth to do it.
The Start is a much bigger problem since you can’t reach The Dip if you don’t get through The Start, and many more people fantasize about doing something than actually do it and give up.
- Maintain your sense of Expectancy in the project using small wins and accomplishments.
- Reward yourself.
- Maintain a sense of value by finding a way to remind yourself of the bigger picture of the small, everyday bouts of effort.
- Build positive habits.
- Find flow.
- Set clear follow-on goals.
- Maintain energy.
Many people use a commitment device or game their surroundings to get and stay motivated.
You can physically help your goal by things like throwing away your junk food, only showering at the gym so that you go there, and similar activities aimed at focussing on your goal. People also use public commitments in social media to stay motivated by peer pressure.
Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Motivation is “the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way,” or rephrased, “the general desire or willingness of someone to do something.”
Set small, incremental goals that are sufficiently exciting to be motivating and for which you have a reasonable expectation of completing.
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How do some of the most prolific artists in the world motivate themselves? They don't merely set SCHEDULE, they build RITUALS.
It’s a simple act, but doing it the same way each morning habitualizes it and makes it repeatable . It reduces the chance of skipping it or do it differently.
Every choice has a price, but when we are motivated, it is easier to bear the inconvenience of action than the pain of remaining the same.
In other words, at some point, it becomes more painful to not do the work than to actually do it.
When you do the same things over and over, that dopamine rush tends to get smaller and smaller. A great way to stay motivated is to keep growing by doing bigger and bigger things.
Take on bigger, more challenging projects at work. Once you’ve reached a running or fitness milestone, start working toward a bigger one.
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