THE SELF MOTIVATION GIST

• Put your plans on paper.

-          Spell out your goals and ways to reach them.

• Be specific.

-          The advice you give yourself must be such that you can put it into practice.

• Break the task down into small pieces so that you can handle them easily.

• Establish checkpoints on your progress as well as rewards.

• Remind yourself of the benefits you expect from your tasks completion.

• Avoid temptations and circumstances that might sidetrack you.

• Recognize your limitations.

-          Don’t set unrealistic goals.

• Take advantage of your own energy peaks!

• Use negative motivation.

-          Remind yourself of the consequences of inaction.

• Keep a time-control budget.

-          Don’t let one task take control over others.

• Set deadlines and hold yourself to them.

• Make an honest distinction between “I can’t” and “I don’t want to”.

• Get started now.

-          Don’t procrastinate.

• Improve your self-persuasion ability.

-          Learn the difference between reasoning and rationalizing.

• Be optimistic.

-          Your chances for success will increase.

• Decide how you want to start, what needs to be done first.

• Read, especially literature related to your situation.

• Use self-signalling devices – notes, signs, cues, reminders.

• Promise yourself rewards.

• Use the stimulation provided by good news to do extra work.

• Recognize conflicts and make a choice.

• Give yourself the right to make mistakes. No one is perfect.

• Exercise your sense of humour.

-          Laughter indicates a realistic point of view.

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