Motivation: Problems of pain
The pain of taking action can be another reason why we fail to motivate ourselves. The pain can be fear, boredom, unpleasantness or drudgery. If a task is too unpleasant, we will procrastinate on it.
This knowledge suggests ways we can make progress on our goals.
- We can redesign our goals to make them less unpleasant.
- We can expose ourselves gently to our fear for the task as the aversion to making progress may be due to irrational fear.
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