How to Motivate Yourself
I talk a lot about motivation on my blog, so I thought I would share a personal way I am able motivate myself. Motivation is one beast that is impossible to master. Most people can’t just go from being completely unmotivated to motivated in an instant, but there are techniques you can use that will help you if you ever feel unmotivated to work.
Don’t Think About The Work. Think About The Final Product.
We will always try to avoid things that seem to be displeasing. If “working” seems displeasing, then our minds will make us not want to do it. It is as simple as that. So how would you trick your mind into liking work if it already seems displeasing?
Don’t envision the work needed to complete the project, just imagine the final product. Imagine when it is completely finished, and imagine how great it will be. Imagine the floods of members and posts that will be rushing in after you complete your project. Now isn’t that an awesome idea?
The Best Way to Motivate Yourself to Work is by NOT Thinking About the Work
It won’t help you whatsoever to keep thinking about the daunting amount of work that is needed before your project is even complete. It won’t speed things up if you convince yourself that there is still a lot of work ahead.
So think about what you want it to be. Think about how great it will turn out to be, and forget about all the work in between, that is nothing.
That is how I manage to motivate myself. I don’t think about the work needed to reach the final product, I just envision the final product already completed. That motivates me. That drives me. If you want that final product badly enough, you will find the motivation needed to work on it.
Final Note:
I hope you find this technique helpful in your pursuit to motivate yourself to work, which I realize is EXTREMELY hard to do at times. I face it all the time, and everyone else does to, but what separates a great administrator from a poor one is the ability to conquer this barrier. You just have to find tricks like these that can help you overcome these obstacles so that you can have your forum be the success it deserves to be.
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