I promise I will not tell you that my motivation is to get all the boxes out of my house. Though I will warn you that is part of what inspires me for my motivation this morning.

It’s Monday and to be honest I tried working some of last week and Saturday and I just had such a hard time getting focused. It would sit down and the words just wouldn’t come. I had so much to do around the house, that I almost felt guilty when I was sitting down to work.

But …  work didn’t get done cause I felt guilty. Boxes didn’t get unpacked because I felt guilty I wasn’t working. It was just a viscous cycle. No matter what I did or didn’t do, it seemed I couldn’t win.

Yesterday I hit on the solution. I got about 10 boxes unpacked and put away. I wrote 5 articles and re-wrote part of Tranquintity. What turned the tide?

Well it was kinda easy, but kinda complicated.

Yesterday morning I just sat down and forced myself to write.

That’s right, I just did it. I just sat down and wrote. Now I really felt that the first thing I wrote was not quality at all, but I went back and edited and it wasn’t shabby after that.

After that first article I felt like I could write another. That felt pretty good. So I decided to take a break and tackle a box. And what do you know there went two dish packs hardly no effort at all.

That is how I spent the rest of my Sunday. An article, a box and so on. I managed to get a lot done.

What motivated me? Just the fact that if I  sat down to do it, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Once I started on the task I felt a whole lot better. Once the task was finished I felt accomplished!

Do you have something that you just can’t seem to get started. Something always getting in your way? Something you know you have to get done? Maybe several task that are sitting there lurking in your inbox making faces at you?

My advice this Monday is to just do it. Sit down and spend just 5 minutes actually working on it. Soon that 5 minutes will turn in to an accomplished project! I know you can!