A Motivational Tip That Works

Stuck? Need motivation? Can’t start your To-Do list? Here’s a trick you can use to get motivated and swing into action. It’s a trick that you play on yourself, and I know it sounds like it shouldn’t work, but if you decide it will work, then… it will work.

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There’s a video I made a while ago that is continuing to generate a lot of interest, a lot of comments, and a lot of conversation. Back and forth in the comments, and the video is called to end procrastination boost motivation, and the idea is that you find a way to make the task more interesting, or more challenging, and that boost of making it a game, making it a challenge, seeing if I can get it done in time, or you can add a reward to the end, once you’ve done the task you get this reward, and for me it might be going downstairs to work on my model railroad, or going out in the yard to do something out into the workshop, to do something uh sitting down, and watching a black and white film noir, whatever.

The trick as I say in the video is to figure out what works for you, but there’s an interesting comment, uhuh, there’s a lot of them, but this one says “This is a topic I’ve currently been thinking about a lot.” And she goes on to say “I have trouble with rewards for boring tasks because my brain goes actually in fact you can have that cake just whenever you damn well want.”

But for some reason attaching fake points or stars to tasks and then reward to that points that works for me, at the moment i give myself bonus points, stars for speed brains are weird, and some people have said the opposite saying “Well I know that I could have the cake anytime so that won’t work.” Here’s the funny thing even if you know it’s all fake and you’ve constructed it it can work and the example I think of is placeos a placebo is just a sugar pill that doctors would give to patients and at first they were giving them to test medications and see if there was an improvement and what they found was when they gave them just the sugar pill there was actually some improvement when they gave them the proper medicine there was probably more of an improvement but just giving someone a placebo that doesn’t do anything just that triggers them to feel better to their body and their attitude and everything well I don’t know how it all works but it works the weirdest part is even if they’re told this is just a placebo it has an effect not quite as much effect apparently but it has an effect there’s theories that it’s because someone’s taking an interest in them or they’re doing something whatever anyway so if you’re put off by the idea of well you know I can’t just make up a reward because I could just not do the task and go get it bonus points stars or if you’re a patron go to the accomplishments and bragging rights conversation and you can fill out what you’ve done and you’ll get all kinds of applause and plaudits and cheering from other patrons i hope that’s helpful my name’s Rick thanks for watching if you have any comments please share them below thanks so much