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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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Inspiration to Beat Procrastination

Hi,

I thought that the one thing STING does is give a time frame so that I don't scare myself into thinking that the task is going to take so long that it's denying me of some greater pleasure. A realistic time schedule also helps to benchmark your progress while spurring you on to completion.

After that, it's the next sequenced actions that really keep you energized as you keep going.

~A.
(My maiden post! Hello world!) :)

 
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