- Think of some task you would not choose to do, but need to do anyway.
- Is there an internal voice?
- What does it say?
- What tonality does it use?
- How do you see the task?
- Do you wait until you feel sufficiently bad before doing it, so that doing it gets rid of the bad feeling? Or do you think positively and feel good after you have done it?
- Effective motivation strategies have some points in common:
- If there is an internal voice, it has a pleasant tone and says, "I can..." or "I will...", not "I must..." or "I should..."
- There is a picture of the finished task, or the consequences of finishing the task, rather than a process of doing the task.
- The task is broken down into manageable chunks and not pictured all at once.
- The benifits of doing it are highlighted, rather than the unpleasant consequences of not doing it.
- The task is connected to a value at a higher level than the task itself.
