Quit Talking, Start Doing! Motivate Yourself When No One Else Can by K. Collins - HTML preview

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#1 Just get started

That’s it. Whatever your plan is, just quit talking. Just DO IT.

We overestimate how much motivation we need to do something. Actually, you just need enough motivation to get started.

If you need to go to the gym when all you want to do is lie on the couch and watch TV, get up and act according to what you think must be done instead of how you feel in the moment. To work out, you don’t really need to be motivated for an entire hour to finish a workout. You just need to be motivated for the 10 minutes it takes you to pack up and drive to the gym. Figure everything else out on the way. Getting out the door is half the battle. Same thing goes if you must make a business plan, just motivate yourself to start preparing the things that you need. Before you know it, you are already doing more than you are expecting to be done.

If you are still having trouble convincing yourself to start the task, tell yourself you are just going to need ten minutes of your time. If it is too tough to continue after ten minutes you will promise to give yourself a break. Sounds better? The trick here is to motivate yourself into getting started, because that’s where your drive will start to keep going.