Motivation is the friend who’s never around when you need him!
And so the hardest part about getting productive is actually finding the motivation to get started. You know what you should do, you know you have to do it but actually getting started is where we get stuck.
Take something as simple as going to the Gym to work out and get healthy. We all know we should do it but actually doing it is very often the problem. So, as someone very smart once told me, ‘The simplest way to crack motivation and productivity is to take that first small step of intent.” It doesn’t have to be a big step, but it works.
In my case, ‘Put your shoes on’! When you put your shoes on, it signals the intent and that translates into action. So here’s to getting started!
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