Tricks to Stay Motivated

Zack Greenfield • April 29, 2022

If you struggle some days to stay motivated, then I know this is gonna help you. I'm gonna give you 2 tips that I use every week to continue to stay motivated on tasks at work around the house, with fitness, and everything else. 

Everybody struggles with staying motivated from time to time, especially when we're facing things that we don't love doing. This is how I handle it. And these are the two strategies that working together can really keep you fired up. Even when the stuff isn't super fun to do. The first thing I like to do is reward myself when I complete something. It doesn't matter, even if it's something I really enjoy or if it's something I don't enjoy, I kind of try to structure some sort of reward around that. Right. So if it's a fitness thing that might mean the reward is <affirmative>, you know, going on a beach vacation or might be something small. And a lot of times, for me, it is something small. I have like a weird thing. Like if I have a good week at work and  we feel like we did well. 

Sometimes I, I just get like a $20 digital wa or something as like a treat just anything to give you that be your behavioral reinforcement, um, of around that task whatever it is. And then the second thing that I think is really important, especially if you're working at home, you're an entrepreneur, you're trying to start a business or any work that you're doing is not like tangibly visible. And when I'm mean by that is if you build brick walls every day, go to work and you can do your work and you look back as you're leaving the job and you can see everything that you've done and you check out and you feel great because you can say we accomplished another 50 feet of this brick wall today. So it's very easy to feel good about the volume and the level of success that you're having when you work in the digital world, or as much of us, many of us do these days, the progress is very abstract and it can be elusive. 

And oftentimes we feel by down in this like sort of alternate reality, like we're not getting enough done, which can be very demoralizing. The antidote to that. And my second tip is to document your progress on like a little pad next to your desk every day. So, and this is not a list of, to dos. This is a list of <affirmative> to done you follow me. So I'm not a fan of to-do list. That's a whole nother video and a whole nother conversation, but I am a fan of, to done. So at the end of the day, writing down your to done shows you, Hey, you know what? I actually got a lot done that fires you up. That keeps you motivated. That keeps you feeling effective and strong in the progress that you're making every day. So track your to DUNS, reward yourself and stay motivated. If you like this video or help, like give you two ideas you can put into play in the coming days, go ahead and smash the like button for us. And we will see you on the next one, because I know you're gonna be a subscriber.
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