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How do you motivate yourself?

How do you motivate yourself even to get to the stage of motivating yourself TO motivate yourself?

I procrastinate a lot at work and end up doing a day's worth in the last couple of hours..

Any advice?

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Cornell, Yes thats true it...

Cornell, Yes thats true it happenned in my case, I was given a project, initially i accepted because the value of project is high and the profit which im getting from it is also high. Later on i found the project disgusting, even though its a web project they started to make changes on each and every step. I sat continously for 15 hours daily just calculate i have worked for 25 days, see i have never ever in my life worked like that but at the end of the project because of their inefficient understanding of their client requirement. They could nt able to satisfy their client, as a sub contract worker i also got affected by this I lost my motivation over that project, for the second module i simply said no and im not going to bother about my payment also. These kind of things happen here and there. We need to be strong in mind..Thats not the case always.

 
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