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As stated in Tip 1, sometimes it just takes a little bit of a shift in thinking before we can actually stop procrastinating, and get doing those things that need to be done.
One of the ways to motivate you to do the things that need done is to have a nice little reward waiting for yourself at the end of the task.
Now depending on the task, the reward can be as big or small as you want, but the fact that there’s a reward waiting there at all is the part that’s relevant here.
You see, no small task should go unseen by…well…yourself.
Sometimes even treating yourself to that piece of chocolate cake that you’ve been avoiding due to the guilty feelings that you’ll be facing is good enough to get you through a task. Who doesn’t love chocolate cake afterall.
Other times it takes a larger reward.
Going out to eat or even as big as a vacation if the task has been large enough or time consuming enough is motivation enough to keep you trucking on through the task at hand. Knowing that the light of the end of the tunnel is a weekend off at the beach is always very enticing and can make the misery and drudgery of the procrastinated on task that much more bearable.
Now sometimes just the fact of finishing a task is motivation enough.
There are plenty of times when finishing a task that has had such a taxing time on the mind is reward enough, and the additional pat on the back will do the trick.
Listen, sometimes all of our good doing’s aren’t noticed or rewarded by others. That’s just life. That’s why it’s so important that you’re able to do right on yourself, and reward yourself accordingly after you’ve worked like a dog to complete something.
Just don’t get caught up in the rewards, where celebration time outnumbers work time. That has a counterproductive to your overall goal.
So reward yourself kindly, graciously accept the reward, and then get started and get yourself for that next well deserved reward.
