Balancing the tides

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Motivation video

Go on youtube and search up a quick motivational video

Make the work easier

1. Have whatever you need ready before you begin. For example, if you need to study some notes, have the notes out and ready the day before or have a tab up ready to click on if you need to study online.

2. Automate simple tasks. There are programs and systems that allow you to automate some part of your work. Use Grammarly to automate correcting grammar. Use Auto Text Expander to quickly type a message (like typing hbd could expand to a happy birthday message).

Make the work interesting.

1. Listen to music.

2. Do work that you like.

3. Try doing the work differently than usually.

Don’t worry too much about it

Just do it and think about the end goal. If you are trying to get fit, don’t think too hard about the process or how to do it too much.

Take a break

There’s a point where doing something for too long will make you too inefficient to get anything done. Thus, you must recharge yourself by giving yourself breaks. Schedule in breaks whenever you work. 5 minutes, 10, 30, find what’s best for you.

Understand Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Have all your needs met before you work. Most important is at the bottom of the hierarchy and each step of it will increase your motivation more.

I’m going to try something positive for a change. I’ve spent almost five years telling myself I’ll start a blog, start writing, start being productive, anything. Now that I think about it, I realise I’ve been telling myself that I’ll do something to make myself proud of me. It’s like I’m split into two, and we’re both on the same team, but one half is convinced she is and always will be a failure and the other half is convinced she’s a failure but only for now. One half spends all their time convincing the other of their own convictions, and even though it never reaches an end, all of me is tired and too exhausted to act on either side. Which essentially means I’ve been letting one half of myself win over the other. Which in turn means I haven’t been faithful to myself.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson