Motivation is the first step

After I wrote yesterday's post my Blog Radar (A Google home page with lots of predefined search feeds) picked up Alina's take on motivation and time management:

There is talk of tools, optimizing everything, efficiency, success, and rules like “Concentrate on results, not on being busy”. As far as I am concerned, they should start with one thing: first you have to convince yourself to act according to your plan. Because most of us can learn how to write a to-do list extremely fast!

Yes, you need to prioritize, see what is really important. True, but what if you know exactly what you need to do, the order of completing each task, but you simply don’t feel like it? Because, when there are things to do outside office hours and you don’t get them done, there are no immediate consequences to fear. Like writing an article after work, when you could just watch TV…

Well said Alina!

Comments

[Alina Popescu]

Thank you for the plug in, Bob. I had no idea how you got to my blog, now I know Blog Radar. Thanks for your visit and I will keep an eye on your blog, it seems extremely interesting.