We are all familiar with the state when the head is dizzy from the things that need to be done, but there is simply no strength to take on them. So we sit, dissatisfied with ourselves, and the work is still piling up and accumulating, and the more it is, the more difficult it is to start. How can you help yourself overcome this condition?
1. Visualize the future. Try to travel back to the time when your work has already been done. How will you feel? What will you do? Is there something in your future that you really want, and the only thing that prevents you from getting it is unfulfilled work? Keep this tasty goal in front of you, and it will help you motivate yourself.
2. Don't do anything. Yes, now it is a fashionable trend in motivating oneself - to feel what real "doing nothing" is. Do not look at TV, monitor, and certainly do not enter social networks. Do not talk to anyone, do not go out to smoke, do not drink tea. Just sit down, or better yet, get up and just stand there for about 10 minutes. Very soon you will realize that you have to force yourself to mess around because you want to start doing at least something - so take advantage of this moment. Repeat this exercise every time you feel the urge to take time off from work.
3. Divide goals into tasks. Often the volume of work is so large that you don't even know where to start. And it’s scary to start. There is a good way to do this: divide the entire workload into small parts. For example, you have a general cleaning of an apartment - break it into parts: wipe the dust, wash the jambs, then the floor, remove the curtains, and so on. It's easier to get started when you know which step is coming after which.
4. Use envy as a motivator. This is not about black envy, which pushes people to do unseemly actions and makes them put a spoke in the wheels of more successful colleagues. Now let's talk about that feeling when you ask yourself a question: can't I do that? Am I worse? Make a healthy competition to the person you want to be like, achieve the same success or even more.
5. Turn your work into a game. Give yourself points for each completed task. And when you get a certain number of points, reward yourself. Choose for yourself what you want more: set aside some money for the upcoming vacation - for each task you complete, you will have more extra money for entertainment during your vacation. Or indulge yourself with some tasty treat that you don't normally buy. Or get out with friends out of town, where you could not get in any way due to the abundance of work. Choose for yourself what will give you additional pleasure in life.
6. Work for yourself and your development. Each time ask yourself the question: what will I learn today by doing this work? Where will I become stronger, better and more experienced? It will help you live each day with awareness and take every step. It will help you to appreciate what you are doing, even if it is the most monotonous and already disgusting work. Raise the bar a little higher every day and win at least a small victory every day. Turn everyday life into a triumphant march of your development!
7. Inspire yourself! Often this is communication with colleagues, competitors, or simply geniuses of their business who are not related to your work, but are examples for you. Watch their work, see how their daily routine is built, how they live, what their plans and life values are. You can learn a lot for yourself and your own ideas by being inspired by people who have already accomplished a lot.
8. Remove the debris. Usually a huge amount of energy is spent on experiences that are not completed here, there is not finished, there is still the last stage … So start with this. Conduct an audit: perhaps something can be delegated to assistants, but something can be abandoned altogether. And finish the rest already so that it does not hang in your unconscious memory and does not draw out energy. Then there will be strength for new projects and beginnings.
9. Give up other people's goals. Think about what you live for. What do you like in this world and what do you consider “not yours”. Who you yourself want to be. You may find that there are goals imposed on you in your life (by parents, society, friends). Discard them. This psychological burden thrown off your shoulders will open up new possibilities and desires for you, you will want to do what your soul will really be satisfied with.
10. Remember that life is fleeting. I sincerely hope that each of us will have a long one. But it doesn't matter how much time we still have, there will always be little if we spend it on empty sitting and worrying. How would you like to see your life and yourself at the very end, what do you want to achieve, what do you want to leave in your memory? Such thoughts are very invigorating and give a huge impetus to the realization of their plans and desires.
11. Just do it now! Sometimes it seems like the dumbest advice there can be, but in fact it has a deep intention. Sometimes only by making an effort on yourself, taking yourself by the scruff and starting to work, you can motivate yourself to continue working. Appetite comes during work. A small step already taken motivates you to continue moving forward.
