- Knowing what you really want - and reflecting one minute about something before starting it. If you're clear with yourself that you don't want to do something, it helps too.
- understanding a bit more about motivation in general (why we do what we do, Edward L. Deci)
- Knowing what extrinsic motivation may motivate you or not and reflecting a bit on it: a bit more money, anticipating nice things, the joy of things well done, reognition. Working on some vain thing for a better performance review (for the boss, conditioning yours) next year doesn't motivate everyone.
- Sharing the psychological burden: talking about it, linking with other projects, some kinds of collaborative work. Maybe I'm getting older, but I sometimes suspect a lot of the bulsh* meetings and collaboration at work serve mainly this purpose. Not every method works for everyone though.
- Solving general health problems, anxiety, depression, sleep apnea issues of course helps.
- Knowing what you really want - and reflecting one minute about something before starting it. If you're clear with yourself that you don't want to do something, it helps too. - understanding a bit more about motivation in general (why we do what we do, Edward L. Deci) - Knowing what extrinsic motivation may motivate you or not and reflecting a bit on it: a bit more money, anticipating nice things, the joy of things well done, reognition. Working on some vain thing for a better performance review (for the boss, conditioning yours) next year doesn't motivate everyone. - Sharing the psychological burden: talking about it, linking with other projects, some kinds of collaborative work. Maybe I'm getting older, but I sometimes suspect a lot of the bulsh* meetings and collaboration at work serve mainly this purpose. Not every method works for everyone though. - Solving general health problems, anxiety, depression, sleep apnea issues of course helps.