Match Your Tasks To Your Mood
One strategy for increasing motivation and productivity as part of a wealth creation program and plan is to match your tasks to your goals. This is very much related to an older conversation we had here on the wealth creation blog in regards to intrinsic motivation. When you learn the trick of it, you find out that getting things done is a whole lot less painful than you thought it would be.
I Feel Like Doing….
Finish this sentence and you pretty much have the gist of this. The idea is to work with your moods, not against them.
Too often we are planning our days according to a logical list of things that need to get done. That’s not so bad, except that we are motivated very much by our moods. When we are not in the mood to attend to a certain task, it can be extremely hard to get it done. Often this is when procrastination and overwhelm settles in, because we start to think about how difficult or boring or tedious or just plain hard something is, and instead of tackling it head on, we spend our time commiserating over having to do it.
If instead you can move on to something that you do feel like doing and come back later to this task, you stand a better chance of getting your list done and of being in a frame of mind of productivity that will be more welcoming to the task.
Mood Discipline
Of course this is a very basic run-down of the strategy of working with your moods to produce more results. Implementing this requires a certain level of discipline and negotiation (with yourself). There will still always be things you’d rather not attend to, and so you may just have to force yourself into attending to those tasks. Just paying a little more attention to the moods of your day and realigning tasks to more suitable times and matches will make a significant difference in what you are able to accomplish.
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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