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Can't get motivated
YaYa
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I've always had a problem getting motivated to do long-term projects in school, and now that I'm nearing the end of my school career it's gotten harder still.
I don't seem to care enough to start a project fully, even if I know it's important and very behind. Case in point, I have a project that we were supposed to start last August, and for the life of me I haven't been able to put pen to paper.
What the hell do I do?
I don't seem to care enough to start a project fully, even if I know it's important and very behind. Case in point, I have a project that we were supposed to start last August, and for the life of me I haven't been able to put pen to paper.
What the hell do I do?
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That's at least how I deal with it.
For instance I hate cleaning my apartment, but I hate studying more, so when I feel like I need to study my apartment becomes clean as a whistle.
I dunno if you can convince yourself that you need to do something worse than a school project, but just a thought.
reward systems sometimes motivate people
1) grades tell employers lots of things about yourself. If you want a better job, work your ass off more.
2) When you have a goal in mind (for example, I will be pursuing tax law and an LLM in the same subject, My performance in those classes mattered more to me.
Goal setting is key. In order to get X, Y, or Z you must do A, B, and C.
It's harder when you're in undergrad and studying nebulous dogshit (I am a philosophy/poly sci double major with a minor in accounting) from my original undergrad degree. Envision grades as talking points to your dream employer about how much of a shit you give about their field and specifically what they do. I went back to undergrad and finished my accounting reqs because I really liked it. Then law school ick.
These projects of yours - they are something you can put in a portfolio and say "Check it I matter, this is why."
This has helped me, I don't know if it is enough for you though. Goal setting is paramount though~!
But as mentionned, break it into smaller projects, that helps.
FYI, grades only matter for the first job you get, after that nobody gives a shit; It's all projects you were a part of or successful cases or what-have-you.
1 - As someone said above, divide into little chunks, nd start small. Sometimes just creating a word file and saving it with a title was an important step for me back in college. Then I could pcik away a little bit at a time until i caught momentum.
2 - Trick yourself into starting. Tell yourself you're only going to work for 5/10/15 minutes and then you can do whatever you want. often once you force your way through that initial goal, you've got enough momentum that you don't want to stop, but if you don stop, its fine. That was the plan all along, and you can do another segment later.
3 - Work on outlines first. I find I feel much more comfortable working on the ideas and how they'll fit together before i ever hit specifics, so i might start by outlining something and then when I'm ready to start I can choose any entry point instead of the beginning, so you can pick whatever bit motivates you most.
4. - invite chaos into your workspace. I sometimes feel too trapped in the starting space so it can help to have abnormally loud music, to work in a different spot than normal, to talk on the phone with someone while i work, put on a familiar movie... anything to get out of the moe of thinking where i'm lethargic.
Hope those help.