Building up self discipline

There are several things which can keep your motivation on track.

Success and acknowledgment are two of the best.
But that isn’t always forthcoming in the early days of a project and that can become demoralising quickly.

If you can surround yourself with positive people, or work as a team (even a small team of 3 people on the project) then that is an enormous help, and highly recommended.
But that isn’t always possible for every project.

So when you work alone, how does one keep self motivated?

One of the best techniques for self motivation that I have found for myself, is not focus, or forced blind determination. It is “BABY STEPS”.

Usually a project becomes demoralising and an energy and enthusiasm drain when the scale of it seems unsurmountable. A never ending task, fast becomes a pay load.

Simply by setting a time limit for each day, like 30 minutes, and then allowing yourself the time off to do other things, I find that I can be far more efficient and get more work done on the project in that short time, than if I forced myself to slave over it all day.

It may be a controversial technique. I don’t think it’s in any motivational books. But in my case, “less is more” seems to boost my self motivation enormously. And you often find because you feel “free” that you are happy to work for longer than that any way. Because it is a choice then, and not a chore.

You can only climb a mountain, one foot at a time, anyway. So it just depends how you “frame” (CBT/NLP/Reiki) the task at hand.

This “baby step” technique can be combined with the more traditional motivational methods as well, as we shall see in later posts.

Sabrina James.

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