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How do you find motivation when it's not there? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago by metaphortune to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Force yourself to do it... for five minutes.

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.