Manufacturing motivation

If you don’t feel like showering and getting ready for the day, pour a glass of juice.

Then, dump it on yourself.

Of course, this will create other problems, but it will surely motivate you regarding the shower.

Sometimes, we need to manufacture motivation. We need to take a small, irreversible step that becomes the catalyst for the work we know we need to do.

This might be accomplished by imagining that step — calling it to mind and visualizing it. This could be enough to get ourselves going in the right direction.

Other times, the only thing that works is to start by making a mess.