so as a self-employed person I often
find it difficult to motivate myself
enough to do things that I'm supposed to
do and over the past two years or so
since I quit my full-time job I think I
actually struggled a lot with that but
over that time I tried a bunch of
different things to try to make myself
more productive and I found several
things that worked for me so I want to
share them with you today so here are my
seven steps for getting things done even
when you don't feel like it okay so if
you don't feel motivated to do something
the first thing you should try is you
should try changing your environment so
if you don't feel like doing some work
at home maybe try going into a cafe a
library or maybe your school and for me
personally I found that you know
whenever I feel not so motivated at home
as soon as I go to my favorite cafe my
motivation picks up and it just becomes
so much easier to get stuff done there
so I would say try to find a place that
works the best for you we're about that
might be and once you're in the right
environment you know in the right place
the next thing you should do if you
haven't done this yet is you should
write down all the tasks that you need
to do or you want to do that day and
whenever you do this I don't think the
media matters too much so it doesn't
matter too much if you use something
like Evernote or another to-do app or
just a piece of paper
oh that personally I like using Google
keep just because I think it's pretty
simple to set up and pretty easy to use
and whatever the medium I find that just
writing down your tasks helps because
you know it helps you focus more by
basically having to keep fewer things in
your head after that if you still don't
feel motivated to do something I would
just start with a really small task this
could be something really simple like
replying to your emails or something
more fun maybe like planning your next
vacation whatever it might be I find
that just by completing this small task
you're gonna be in the right mindset to
start getting you know bigger tasks done
you know of course just be careful not
to spend too much time on these small
insignificant
and after that let's say that you have a
bigger more important task that you want
to work on I could be anything but let's
say it's just an example that you want
to work on writing a blog article then
if you still don't feel motivated to do
that I would ask yourself why did you
want to do that in the first place and
then I would sort of dig into your
motivation by asking yourself why a
bunch of times so in this particular
case you might say well I wanted to
write a blog article so that I can make
you know some side income in the future
through my blog you might say I want to
be able to make some side income so that
I can travel more in the future
and you might say traveling is important
for me because I want to be able to
experience more things in the future
so that's your base motivation right
there in this particular case and of
course you know it might be something
different for you but whatever it is if
it's something that's strong enough and
important enough I believe that you
should be able to just get started on
your task and you know get your
motivation up again anyway after that if
you do decide that this particular task
is important enough for you then the
easiest way to get started with it is by
breaking it down to a really small first
step so in this particular case instead
of thinking about writing the whole blog
article think about you know maybe
writing the first paragraph or writing
the outline instead if that seems like
too much work for you just think about
writing down a few key words that are
going to be important in this particular
article so whatever your task is you
should be able to break it down to a
small enough first step so that it's
really easy to get started with okay and
after breaking your task down to a
really small first step if it's still
too hard to get started with it here's
what I would do I would tell yourself
that you're gonna only work on this task
for five minutes and actually you know
use your phone's timer or something to
time yourself for five minutes if five
minutes seems too long just to two
minutes if that seems too long just to
one minute or you know thirty seconds
I think no matter how boring or you know
paying for your task is you should be
able to just work on it for one minute
and when that one minute is done just
ask yourself can you do two minutes now
and then four minutes ten minutes and 20
minutes and soon and that way you'll be
able to actually increase the amount of
time you focus on the task sort of
gradually by the way I recommend using
this app called forest for this because
I think it's a lot more fun way of
timing yourself than just using a simple
timer all right the final thing I
recommend for motivating yourself when
you don't feel like it so much is using
some kind of reward this could be
something really simple like eating a
piece of snack that you wanted to eat
earlier or watching your favorite show
that just came out whatever it is just
tell yourself that you can only do the
thing after completing your task okay so
these are my seven steps for getting
stuff done but actually there is one
more thing I wanted to talk about and
that's music so personally I don't
usually listen to music whenever I work
on something because I can focus more
that way but I found that good music is
really helpful whenever I work on
something that's really boring for me
it's usually like legal stuff or maybe
tax related stuff and you know by
listening to music it just becomes a
little bit less boring anyway that's all
I wanted to talk about in this video
there's any type of videos I should make
in the future or any topics I should
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