Whether it be to do your job, get your schoolwork done, clean your house, work on your creative passion, etc.

Bonus points if you’re someone without reasonable self-control so saying something like “I can only have a cookie after I do this/while I do this” doesn’t work for you and you’re just going to eat the cookie and not do it.

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    7 months ago

    Force yourself to do it… for five minutes.

    If you still don’t like doing it after five minutes, give yourself permission to stop.

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      7 months ago

      This works very well for me. It certainly helped me get past the notion that I needed motivation before doing something.

      I prefer to want to do a thing before doing it, but I don’t have to.