When you're not motivated, no amount of SMART goals or Pomodoros or screaming affirmations in the shower will help you.
In The Motivation Hacker, Winter designed a system to ensure that he would accomplish his goals over the three months. I don't want to spoil the ending, but he was mostly successful, and his book outlined effective motivation techniques any of can employ.
There were a couple areas he didn't cover as much, though. First, Nick is a self-starter, so there wasn't as much focus put on The Start as there was on surviving The Dip. Further, it was a system built for those three months, not an ongoing motivation system, though I'm sure he incorporated many of the lessons into the future.
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