This happens to each of us: there is a very necessary and important task, and that’s all to get down to it ... And you think about it all day long, and dream about it at night, but you don’t want to do it! Well, don't like it! How to force yourself to do something that does not have a soul?

When work is a wolf

Lucky for those who have a job - a favorite pastime. Such lucky people can not read this material. And all the others, perhaps, will draw here for themselves. useful information about how to make a boring work routine more pleasant and easier.

First of all, try to find at least something good in your work. Are you a sales assistant and today a satisfied customer sincerely thanked you for your help? Mark this fact in your internal "diary", praise yourself for professionalism and ability to communicate with people.

You are a teacher? Of course, negligent students and paperwork periodically get bored. But look: today at the lesson, the notorious loser Petrov from the last desk was able to answer homework to a solid "troika", and even "with a plus". That's progress! Rejoice with the boy in his success!

During the working day, be sure to take breaks, devoting them to activities that are pleasant for you: go out into the fresh air, if possible, look through a fashion magazine for a couple of minutes, have a snack. All this will allow you to be distracted, recharged with positive energy. And things will get better!

If at work you spend a lot of time at a desk, at a computer, at the cash register, be sure to arrange “physical education minutes”. Blood will run faster, stiff legs and arms will come to life, and your mood will definitely rise!

Try to always look smart and attractive at work - even if you work in a warehouse or in a stall. After all, the morning process of putting on beautiful clothes, combing your hair, applying makeup, choosing the right accessories in itself creates a positive attitude. As a result, you will take your workplace already in good mood and you can keep it throughout the day.

Cinderella troubles

And the floor needs to be washed, and the linen to be ironed, and to go to the store, and plant forty rose bushes ... But it’s so reluctant!

Well, if you have the opportunity to shift all these household chores onto the shoulders of your husband, children or housekeeper, you are in luck. Otherwise, you will have to do everything yourself - no matter how you put it off, nothing will be prepared and removed by itself.

Don't try to do everything at once. Just the thought that you have to spend all Sunday on general cleaning and cooking for the week ahead will kill your joy of life in the morning. And there is a risk that you will lie in bed until the evening, reproaching yourself for negligence ...

Tell yourself: now I will wash the dishes, and then I will go for a walk. If there is time in the evening, I will sort out the cupboards and fry the cutlets. And if not, we’ll order pizza for dinner tomorrow, and the cupboard will wait until Tuesday…

Be sure to reward yourself if . Can't stand ironing? Treat yourself to a candy for every ironed bedding set. Or let yourself lie on the couch watching a silly TV series after you heroically cleaned all the tiles in the bathroom.

And also make sure that your family notices all your troubles and appreciates your work. As if casually notice at dinner at night: “I tried so hard when I cooked this casserole. Mmm, it turned out delicious ... ”Let your husband and children also praise you for a wonderful dinner, and gradually it will become a habit for them. As you know, a kind word is pleasant even for a cat. What to say about you?

You see, boring chores can become a pleasure if you are sure that your work will be appreciated by those you love.

Instances, instances, instances...

Sometimes, in order to get some kind of information, you have to, like a fairy-tale heroine, trample ten pairs of iron shoes. Sitting in an endless line in front of the closed door of an official's office - what could be more boring and unpleasant? But from this office they will send to the next! And we endlessly put off going to the social security, to the passport office, to the housing office, to the tax office ...

Try to make sure that sitting in line does not become a waste of time for you. Take your favorite book, magazine, knitting, player with you. Or you can grab a PDA or a simple notepad and write a cool article while waiting ... That will be a reason to praise yourself for the fact that you know how to save every minute and always do something useful - combining it with pleasure.

Don't put off until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow what you can do today. Do it and congratulate yourself on it!

In the life of any person at least once there comes a moment when the desire to move on completely disappears. What can be done to restore the ability to act and develop? How to force yourself to do something, and not wallow on the couch.

To successfully eliminate such a condition, it is first necessary to understand what caused it. Most often, the cause is routine, overwork, a decrease in self-esteem due to previous failures. The choice of further action should be based primarily on the findings.

Effective ways to deal with apathy

The best cure for blues and apathy is deservedly recognized as a change in the field of activity. In addition, this is a wonderful way to discover new opportunities and perspectives. Most often, the cause of unwillingness to act is hidden or overt anxiety. Switching to new task, the brain will allow itself to take a break from experiences. After that, a pleasant discovery will be the presence of any new skills, knowledge and training, which in turn will inspire new achievements.

Also one of the most common and effective ways is to make a list of goals. Some plan for the day, week or year. This will help to structure your desires, formulate goals from them and build an approximate sequence of actions to achieve them. Of course, all people tend to get tired, and it is precisely a clearly defined sequence of actions that is most often lacking at such a moment. During the preparation of such a plan, due to a clear awareness of the benefits of achieving the ultimate goal, there is a significant motivation for action.

Well helps in such cases, the development of a system of incentives. Small rewards upon completion of each small

th fragment of the work, significantly reduce the time spent on it, and also contribute to the improvement of the emotional state, the emergence of a sense of satisfaction. It could be

anything: favorite treats, walking or listening to music.

Praise. Reception at first glance is close to the previous one. Only in this case, a person, after completing the planned amount of work, should praise himself. Aloud or in writing, but never to yourself.

Speaking or writing in this case will give psychological confidence and help increase self-esteem.

Of course, you can combine the above methods at your discretion, supplementing them with watching motivational films or reading relevant literature. The main condition for success here will be the absence of long periods of passive pastime.

I just don't want to! Disgusting, passive, worthless. And it seems like you want to quit everything and relax, but the feeling of inferiority, unfulfilled duty does not let go.

When this feeling fills every cell of the body, you understand that control over yourself is finally lost. Self-esteem wriggles in death convulsions and other harmful things immediately come out, such as “since everything has gone topsy-turvy, I’ll go get some sandwiches!”

How to break yourself in such moments? How to force yourself to do something? Let's find out in this article!

We will look at several ways. The first is life hacks that can be used like matches: if it ignites, it’s great, if it doesn’t ignite, we try another one. The second and third are more serious methods of self-control using willpower and motivation.

life hacks

To get started, you can try the following methods:

1. Come up with a start-up ritual

Such is the device of a person: some kind of chain of events can start certain processes in the body. For example, in the absence of light, the brain begins to produce melatonin, the sleep hormone. When threatened, there is agitation and the fight-or-flight response. This phenomenon is called triggers.

Triggers can be used to your advantage. For example, to program the body that after drinking a mug of sweet green tea, it should work hard. Just repeat the “tea → work” process more often, and the brain will build a neuro-associative connection. Unbeknownst to you, this connection will grow stronger, and subsequently, create a constant reaction that will help you get involved in business faster.

2. Provide reward for work done

Great work - great reward! If you can’t get out of apathy, you can exchange a greater evil for a lesser one. Fast food, TV shows, anything to start doing something.

What are you limiting yourself to? Resolve it after the work is done. After all, rules are there to be broken!

3. Break a big task into many small ones and do them one by one

It is known that in any sphere of life success is achieved by "regular people", that is, those who constantly, in small steps, go towards the goal. Unlike impulsive and changeable people, they get results much faster.

This is our case too. By regularly returning to work, pinching off bits and pieces of it, we will exhaust our business so much that the fear of it will disappear. Before us will be slices of a once huge elephant, which would be impossible to eat entirely.

4. Complete a difficult task in one sitting

When, after 2 hours of work, you are in a state of flow, when you have figured out all the intricacies, when your hand is full, and the speed is maximum, it is silly to put pressure on the brakes. Even if your eyes are strained from the computer, even if your body is physically exhausted - just before the finish line, it’s better to push a little.

It happens that there are 10-15 percent left, you leave to drink coffee or read messages for 5 minutes, but for some reason you relax so much that you don't want anything again. “Come on, there won’t be long!” you say to yourself. And then this "not long" develops into half an hour, an hour, and so on.

Agree, with a sense of accomplishment, rest is much more pleasant. The mind is calm, and therefore the body is relaxed. In a word - lafa!

5. Look into a brighter future

Sometimes, from dull and monotonous work, everything is so annoying that you lose motivation to do anything at all. We focus on the current state and forget why everything was started.

But that's why we are people that are able to analyze the future! Able to foresee the results and consequences of their actions. Represent freedom and that will happen after the problem has been solved.

This is what needs to be done after the onset of another depressive streak. Try to accumulate as much positive charge in your thoughts as possible. Just do not get carried away, otherwise the flight of fantasy can hurt painfully when it hits reality.

6. Create a pleasant environment

A strand on the table - order in the head. Fresh air means fresh thoughts. Calm environment - calm pace of work! This series is basically infinite.

We must try to make the workplace attract itself. Imagine an artist who closes himself in his closet and enthusiastically begins to create. No one distracts him, he always has everything at hand. And he sits there at least all day, giving birth to another masterpiece.

If you want to, you need to become such an artist in everyday life. And for this you need to create a "closet" with all the amenities and comfort. Let your fantasy play, let it do its thing!

7. Plan carefully

Forcing yourself to do something can be difficult due to the lack of a plan. Hands down when uncertainty hangs over a difficult task.

A well-designed schedule will help dispel the fog of ambiguity. This means not just sketching out a “do this, this, this” list, but prioritizing:

• A - do first
• B - proceed only after all done A
• C - delegate if possible
• D - remove altogether

By knowing your priorities, you will move in a direction that will take you to the finish line much faster.

8. Unlink from External Distractions

• Forget about browser tabs
• Forget about the phone
• Forget talking
• Forget about the music
• Forget about unthinking thoughts
• Forget what needs to be forgotten

It happens that as soon as you accelerate and start to gain altitude, a phone call abruptly lowers you to the ground. And again you have to start all over again, delve into, understand. It's better to be a savage for an hour and not know what the greatest historical events have happened during this time, but to do the job 2 times faster.

9. Load the morning - free the evening

If you have a free morning, do the unloved thing at this time. Then the rest of the day you will be filled with a sense of relief and freedom.

Otherwise, you can procrastinate the upcoming work for a whole day and get mentally tired by the evening, without even starting to work.

10. Do not chase the ideal

No businessman, no scientist, no sportsman started his career with perfect results. An example - a favorite of the authors - Thomas Edison. He made 10,000 attempts before inventing the light bulb.

The same is true in our life. While others are testing the waters the hard way, you may be striving for perfection on the first try. It is because of this that they achieve more, and you get tired of endless improvements and monotonous work.

Striving for perfection is certainly a great quality, but in some cases it can hurt productivity.

11. Get creative

There is a small child in each of us. True, most people taught him to keep quiet and agree with boring work. But he also has rights!

Let him, at least a little fool around and diversify life. Turn your task into a game, into an interesting pastime. Maybe this will help to sober up the attitude to the upcoming business and complete it with full dedication.

12. Destroy the enemy one by one

Pick one thing. Concentrate on only one thing. Don't let the tide of urgent work confuse you.

When there are a million things around, and each one requires attention, you need to stop and calmly choose the most difficult and ugly. Deal with it, and then repeat the algorithm from the beginning. As the “opposite” decreases, you will notice how the speed of work and motivation for further actions will increase.

Oh, we've been discussing banal things for too long! Any grandmother would put this point into one saying: “You chase two hares, you won’t catch one!”

13. Be calm about interference

If you are constantly prevented from concentrating, this is normal. Spontaneous events will not go anywhere, they will always interfere in our lives. It is important to relate to them.

If you "round" you can get 2 options for the development of events:

1. Deal with urgent matters and move everything else to tomorrow.
2. Carry out task after task in a planned manner

The first option is, of course, attractive. But tomorrow again, a bunch of urgent and urgent cases will pile up. And again transfer everything and change it.

If possible, the second path should be chosen. You know that ideal conditions will never!

14. Set deadlines

We all know how many jokes about endless repairs in the apartment. And all these jokes can be projected onto the protracted performance of their work. In order not to be a laughingstock in your own eyes and finish as quickly as possible, you need to put specific dates delivery of the project. Not just "until Friday", but until 03/03/2033.

If you still come up with an incentive (see paragraph 3), for the sake of which it is worth hurrying, the work will go doubly fun.

15. Do not scold yourself beloved

If you really worked, but still failed to fulfill the plan, do not scold yourself. Everything is fine and life will not end because of this!

Strength of will

Many people compare willpower to a muscle, and for good reason: it has similar properties. By constant training, it can be strengthened, overtrained - to break it.

This muscle, of course, is trained in everyone. It allows them to get up at 6 in the morning, do sometimes unloved things, lead a healthy lifestyle, make 100 calls a day and much more. How to use this terrible tool?

• The first is to realize connection between the physical and spiritual state. Agree, if you are tired at work, if you have a lot of unpaid debts, if your body is haggard and tired - there can be no question of any willpower.

  Only when you are alert, productive, and free can you use your willpower as productively and painlessly as possible. Therefore, you need to strive so that the blood does not freeze in the veins. Try as hard as you can, even though it doesn't always work out.

• Second. If willpower is a muscle, then the inner core is the bone on which it is attached. When you are confident in yourself and your behavior, it is easier for you to do something unpleasant. A reputation as an armor-piercing person with high self-esteem will push you to further achievements.

  Strengthening the inner core with a constant desire to work will become just an everyday habit. And the thought “I can’t force myself to do anything” will no longer arise.

• Third. There are some things that should be taken out of the scope of decisions. This means that if the matter is really important, then do not hesitate to do it or not, but do it without talking. By using inner strength transfer yourself to the workplace and start plowing.

  As appetite comes with eating, so the desire to work comes with work. It is important to hold out for the first half hour, and then it becomes easier and easier.

• Fourth. Indulgences such as “I was good today, so I can treat myself a little” do not work and lead to a worsening of the situation. A tense muscle suddenly relaxes sharply, and it can be difficult to return it to the opposite position.

  It is advisable to choose 1 specific day and completely devote it to rest.

• Fifth. Forgive yourself! The punishments we come up with after a relapse are usually short-lived.

  Life consists of pleasant little things: eat a chocolate bar, lie on the couch once again, put off tedious work. Therefore, shoving remorse in a dark box is sometimes a good solution.

Motivation

Willpower is certainly good and effective, but it contradicts the person himself. Well, your inner self doesn’t want to do something, it needs to have fun, relax, communicate with family and friends like in childhood!

If there was a “power of motivation” when you pushed, pushed, and now you are already charged for action, it would be just fine. Unfortunately, it is not. Motivation is a thing that comes, and even the most effective tricks sometimes do not work.

However, here are some things you can do to motivate yourself to take action:

• Think about your acquaintances and understand that if you do something, you will bypass them, increase the chances of your success. And they will remain standing still.
• Find a competitor among friends or colleagues to arouse the desire to defeat him
• Listen to your favorite music, watch a motivational movie or video - this is on the Internet great amount
• Finally, take responsibility for your entire life. Understand that everything that happens to you is the result of your actions in the past and present
• Stop blaming others for your failures and inaction, take the oar and start rowing yourself
• Realize that daily behavior becomes a habit. If you get used to choosing work, not laziness, then next time it will be easier.

  As a huge country is formed by individual people, so life is created by certain actions. Therefore, with each choice to work, you strengthen your strength and motivation for further achievements.

• At the beginning of the work, say to yourself: I will do this for as long as it takes. If day, then day. If year, then year. This will immediately set you up for long-term work without unnecessary disappointments.
• And, finally, remember (although it is difficult) about the time allotted to us. Ask yourself: “What will I remember on my deathbed? How do I lay on the couch? How did I give up? How I was afraid to take risks and show emotions? No, it's not about me!"

Do you know such a state when something needs to be done, but you can’t force yourself to start this business? It's kind of tedious and awkward. Laziness, spleen, procrastination. This phenomenon has thousands of faces and masks. A bunch of different answers. I hate to do when I have to, not when I want to. However, not only your personal well-being, health and the like sometimes depend on this Must. Persuaded? We will not delve into the root causes for a long time, why it is necessary to do this, but we will immediately move on to How to do it.

Eat great book Brian Tracy "Leave the disgust, eat the frog." A great tool for advanced time management. I recommend to take a look. There is even an audio version, which is even more pleasant and convenient. Since we are talking about time management, we will immediately learn how to properly manage it. You can listen to the audiobook in the car or on a walk, while doing household chores and during the rest period.

I will not retell the content of the book, the author does not need it. I will share my methods on how not to pull the rubber and start a business right away.

1. It is very important for me why I am doing this, that is, I clearly define my goal. If I do this, I will end up with such-and-such. How does my goal bring me closer to the main goal? Why do I need it? Who am I doing this for? What, in the end, will it bring to others, to the cause, to me? That is, I draw my goal clearly, voluminously and clearly. And if what I get is weighty and significant, this alone motivates me to start a business. If it only steals my time or does not correspond to my life principles in any way, it is swept aside and replaced by other, more important things.

2. The second step - I start doing it right away, immediately. I see the target! I have chosen my path, and I know that it is not a dead end. This is what Tracy calls "eating a frog" - doing it immediately and without disgust is not the most interesting thing. Make it at the very beginning. I must say that not always, even after a clearly defined goal, I start this business with enthusiasm and delight. But I take this step - from a small, little by little and ... I get involved, and even like it! Usually, for internal motivation, I set myself a task - I will “eat a frog” until a certain hour. It won't be long, but it will get done. When clear time frames are set, there is no time to put things off until later.

3. I really like to divide my business into small pieces. You can always choose for yourself a tastier piece, even in not the most delicious business. I start with them. Piece by piece, you see, all the work is done! The main thing is not to scare yourself with a huge amount of things, to distract yourself with small sections.

4. Deadlines, deadlines and once again deadlines. They must be determined at each stage of the work. But there is also such a paradox: at first, an uninteresting task suddenly captures me, and I get carried away by it. Here I go to the violation of all my rules - I forget about the deadlines and bring the matter to the end. Usually already with enormous pleasure. It's driving - to translate an uninteresting business into the category of the most exciting. The very process of such “re-recruitment” is breathtaking. Excitement appears. As a result - a rating of "five plus" for the usual, everyday business.

5. Most of the time is spent on rework. I hate going back to things I've done. I can't stand redoing things. It is much more profitable to do it right away and even excellent - it saves a lot of time. Therefore, one more rule - do everything right at once.

6. Be sure to reward yourself for any victory. Defeating your own laziness and doing the right thing is a great victory. How do I encourage? Both in word and deed. I praise myself. I allow myself to buy something that I have long dreamed of. That is, I earn it! For myself.

7. Positive is the main motivator for the planned business. At the initial stage, I always present the result of my work in a positive way. The result should be meaningful, beautiful and necessary. Even if it is ordinary household cleaning, everything should shine and sparkle, the house should be a model of order. I never consider a case that needs to be started somehow by doing a service. Otherwise I won't be able to take the first step at all.

8. If this is a large-scale, not small business, the same rules and laws apply to its implementation, only you need to start it little by little, in doses, and be sure to do it every day. Every day, take those small steps that will lead to the fulfillment of a great dream.

The one who walks will master the road! .

As they say: "Good afternoon, dear editors!". Although we appeal, of course, to the readers. We are Artem Bukanov and Sasha Bogdanova.

Not so long ago, Sasha decided to highlight a vital question for everyone: how to force yourself to do something, and therefore I (Artem) undertook to speculate on this topic.

Indeed, laziness and procrastination have become the most scourge of our time.

A huge number of people are struggling with such a problem, looking for a solution to it, racking their brains, and meanwhile: they still don’t want to do anything, they constantly put off even important things, and if they do them, then reluctantly or under duress.

So let's figure out how you can tune in to a working mood if you don't want anything. Perhaps, it’s worth mentioning right away that there is no “magic pill” for everyone and everyone, because everyone has their own motivation.

But I will try to speculate what options out of this situation are.

To begin with, I want to draw attention to a number of tips that are often offered to solve the current situation. Personally, in my opinion, in most cases they are useless and sucked from the finger.

Here are some of them:

• Give yourself a reward for a job well done

Come on, come on! As if you already won’t allow yourself this award (offered various options: from a simple chocolate bar to an expensive purchase). After all, it is YOU who decide whether or not to allow yourself the reward, and not someone who offered you to do the work for it.

Therefore, most likely, you will allow yourself a reward, but the matter will remain unfulfilled.

• Gather your will into a fist!

Yeah, and then immediately sort it out ... Well, let's be honest now: if you don’t have enough willpower to do this or that thing, that you don’t like it, where the hell does she come from to gather into your fist? What the hell is that anyway?

That is, you need to find willpower when you obviously know that you have problems with this? Well, yes, we can say that this is a kind of mobilization, but it's all "blank on the soap." This mobilization comes when, as a rule, it is already a complete mess.

• Take a break from business

In part, yes, rest is needed, but we are talking about laziness, right?! I will also immediately draw your attention to the fact that not all work can be done step by step and not every work can take a break.

Some activities require constant performance, concentration of strength and attention: allow yourself to relax your thighs for a while, and the burden of responsibility will crush you like an elephant's butt.

In fact, you can give out an infinite amount of advice, but you need to understand that even if the matter is simple laziness, if the situation involves simple impatience for work or affairs of a certain kind, or whatever the situation is, there can be a huge number of ways out.

But be that as it may, these thoughts of mine were a kind of digression whether to accept my point of view or not is up to you. Now back to our sheep.

Is there a magic kick in the ass?

And yet, after so much reasoning, it would be necessary to give at least some intelligible answer: what to do? Perhaps now the slippers of couch analysts will fly at me that they will consider this method invalid - so be it.

Personally, I and those who have tried it in practice can assure the opposite. What points are important in resolving such an unpleasant task?

Making a to-do list by hand.

Precisely in writing, on a sheet of paper, and not ephemeral plans in my head. And cross things out once you've dealt with them.

• Set a specific time to complete them.

On the same sheet, clearly: when you complete a particular task.

• Remove / turn off everything that distracts you

Phone, tablet, laptop, without fail social. networks - all this should be frozen for the duration of the work. Nothing should distract you.

Turning off your phone is much easier than you think. And no, no one will lose you, and the planet will not collapse!

• Give yourself time to think