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What To Do When You Feel Unmotivated
When you feel unmotivated
For the moments in which you don't feel motivated, try to change your state as quickly as possible. The longer you wait, the harder it’ll become.
Successfully changing your state at will, again and again, is what will help you perform at the highest level.
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How to Get Motivated
Develop a Routine. Create a series of events that you always perform before doing a specific task.
- Step 1: Start by doing something so easy that you can't say no to it.
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Motivation and creative work
Intrinsic motivation is necessary for creative work. We need broad thinking, so we can come up with innovative ideas and see new connections.
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Elements of intrinsic motivation
The 3 elements required for intrinsic motivation:
- Autonomy: it's about choice - when you believe you have a choice, you're more motivated.
- Mastery: it's about wanting to get better at something that matters.
- Purpose: it comes from believing you're working on something that's bigger than yourself.
Knowing our work helps others
When we know that our work will make a difference to someone else, it makes us work harder.
Try to reach out to the people who directly benefit from your work. This could boost your motivation to work hard.
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The Progress Principle: Tiny steps build motivation
If you wait for the ideal conditions before you start, you'll probably never do it.
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Look for ways your work impacts the people around you
Procrastination is worst when we don't see the point of our jobs. The connection to a larger purpose helps us find meaning and motivation at work.
If your job doesn't make a huge impact, think about how it has helped the people you spend your day with. Each day, write down three ways your work has helped your coworkers.
Giving advice to someone else can be motivating
We don't lack motivation because we don't know how to be motivated, but because we don't know how to act on our own knowledge.
When we feel unmotivated, it's common to seek advice. But research shows that giving advice can be more motivating than receiving advice.