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  • So, as a self employed person, I have to find it difficult to motivate myself enough to do things that I'm supposed to do on or 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 on.

  • I found several things that work for me.

  • So I want to share them with you today s o hear 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 s O.

  • If you don't feel like doing some work at home, maybe try going into a cafe, a library or maybe your school on for me.

  • Personally, I've found that you know, whenever I feel not so motivated at home, a soon as I go to my favorite cafe, my motivation picks up on it just becomes so much easier to get stuff down.

  • There s o I would say Try to find a place that works the best for you.

  • Where about that might be on 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 whatever you do this, I don't think the media matters too much.

  • So it doesn't matter too much if you use something like every note or another to do up or just a piece of paper.

  • Although personally, I like using goo keep just because I think it's pretty simple to set up on pretty easy to use on, Uh, 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 discreetly, something really simple, like replying to your e mails or something more fun, maybe, like planning your next vacation.

  • Whatever it might be, I find that just by completing this small task uh, you're gonna be in the right mindset to start getting bigger tasks done.

  • Uh, you know, of course.

  • Just be careful not to spend too much time on these small a significant tasks on 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 blogger 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 bloke Arctic Oh, so that I can make some sighting coming the future through my block, you might say, I wanna be able to make some citing come so that I can trouble more in the future.

  • 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 on dhe important enough, I believe that you should be able Thio just get started on your task on, 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 down to a really small first step.

  • So in this particular case, instead of thinking about writing the whole blogger article, I think about maybe writing the first paragraph or writing the outline instead.

  • If that seems like too much work for you, just think about writing done a few key words that are gonna be born in this particular article.

  • Eso 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 on 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, uh, you gonna Onley work on this task for five minutes.

  • Actually, you know, user phones, time 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 woman it or, you know, 30 seconds.

  • I think no matter how boring or paying for your task is, you should be able to just work on it for one minute on when that one minute is done.

  • Just ask yourself, Can you do two minutes now on, then four minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes on.

  • So 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 of 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 favourite 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's one more thing I wanted to talk about on 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 on, you know, by listening to music, it just becomes a little bit less boring.

  • Anyway, that's all.

  • I wanted to talk about this video.

  • If there's any type of videos that you make in the future or any topics I should cover in the future, Uh, let me know in the comments section, Thank you, as always for watching my videos.

So, as a self employed person, I have to find it difficult to motivate myself enough to do things that I'm supposed to do on or the past two years or so.

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