I realised at this moment I was different
I remember when I was at University, I took on some summer jobs, just to get some cash to save up for a computer I wanted.
I was called in to do some temp work – to copy data from one place to another.
I was excited as this would pay me well since it was a Saturday and Sunday!
I just couldn’t cope with the task any more
After a day and a half I was done. I’d never felt so drained in my life and I couldn’t manage to carry on. They asked if I wanted to stay and do some more the following week, but I just couldn’t.
I wondered how they were managing to stay so focused, given that they did this kind of work every day! It amazed me.
Money is a poor motivator..
The reality is, money often isn’t the major motivator for us, and if a task is too boring, it’ll be impossible to get us to do it, even if there’s a good reward at the end.
Threat is an amazing motivator!
You’ll often find ADHD people will leave tasks until the last minute. This gives us the kick of motivation we need to take action.
I couldn’t tell you the amount of times I’ve tidied up just before a friends visited me.
But let’s find more sustainable motivation!
But there are other ways to get stuff done, without engineering some kind of catastrophe around every corner! (what an exhausting life that would be!)