Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself?
by mackwic on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:00PM
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Motivation is something personal, you have to find what motivates yourself. There is books on that, but I can't advise you as I never used them.
As I see it, the key for doing things is to begin, then to focus. Can't focus ? Do another. Just keep doing.
Motivation is not really something that helps you when you are doing, it's something that helps you to begin and to end.
But is motivation the only way to begin and end things ? Obviously not. Duty, deadlines, promises, anything that make you morally engaged in an action.
So, go set some goals ! Make it as a timeline with deadlines, make it as a flat TODO, make it as a scrumy (http://scrumy.com is a great service), try, fail, repeat until you win.
There is no way to find the good one until you tried it. So keep doing things, be amazing. ;-)
Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself?
by kevutu on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:10PM
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Duty, deadlines, promises, anything that make me morally engaged does not actually get me to do good work as this drives me to procrastinate and do stuff at the absolute last minute.
As I see it, the key for doing things is to begin, then to focus. Can't focus ? Do another. Just keep doing. Motivation is not really something that helps you when you are doing, it's something that helps you to begin and to end.
But is motivation the only way to begin and end things ? Obviously not. Duty, deadlines, promises, anything that make you morally engaged in an action. So, go set some goals ! Make it as a timeline with deadlines, make it as a flat TODO, make it as a scrumy (http://scrumy.com is a great service), try, fail, repeat until you win.
There is no way to find the good one until you tried it. So keep doing things, be amazing. ;-)