This is practically me when I'm not motivated to work. My brain begins to look for ways to escape the task before me and if I do not find a way, I will linger on one thing until time passes and I can no longer work. This often happens when I'm not finding the task I'm doing very difficult and brain-tasking, or I've been multitasking which gave me a temporary mental block. The mental block usually comes when I go days working round the clock with little or no time to take a rest, at that moment my eyes would begin to turn red and I would start having consistent heart palpitations.
Those are the moments I know I am underperforming in relation to what I can deliver. I'm never happy with myself at this stage because of how much I know I can deliver but for one reason or another, I can't reach that point no matter how hard I try. I do not have a particular way of motivating myself back to my best, but I have a list of things that will help me find my motivation in some way or another. The first thing I do here is tell myself the truth. I feel I owe myself that much, and even if I lie to everyone else or deceive everyone, I shouldn't be lying or deceiving myself.
When I tell myself the truth of how much my actions are not good enough, and how I can't keep going on like that else I will disappoint those depending on me to deliver. I tell myself the truth of how stupid I am if I keep on procrastinating, and by the time I've done it like 3 times I move over to checking or making my schedule and putting it on my computer screen so I will always be reminded of the things I'm yet to do. Now why I say it works differently is because most of those things I need to do need different types of motivation to do them.
For example, right now, the top activity on my to-do list is meeting the deadline I have to finish my company's website, which is tomorrow. I have other things scheduled to do, but then I ask myself, how can I do them, and why should I do them… these two questions alongside others help me with the motivation I need to get that task done based on a sense of urgency that has now been registered in my brain and at that moment finishing up that task becomes the utmost priority and I become motivated to think of a way out of that difficult task. It's often not easy like I said and there's no one way to become or stay motivated.
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This reminds me so much of my previous job. So much demanded from me with so little time and the expectancy rate at 100%. It’s very easy to grow anxious and avoid the task altogether.
But it always comes back to hunt
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