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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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I stop thinking about whatever...

tayker;9201 wrote:
I stop thinking about whatever task I'm procrastinating and just do it.

I have a very similar "method". I had discipline drilled into me from a young age and I apply this 'drive' to almost every aspect of my life: whether (rock) climbing or marking papers, just DO it.

Discipline has to become as second-nature as the GTD methodology itself. You can have all the ubiquitous-capture devices you want, but if you never check them...:rolleyes:

Merlin has a great podcast episode about combating procrastination.

 
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