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!

And not because they mean it is the end of the week. I often work the weekends so that doesn’t work for me.

Fridays are the days I can sit back, collect my thoughts and plan for the coming week. I answer my emails, send out emails to friends and family I want to keep in touch with, and I plan for what I want to do on the weekend and for Monday Morning.

Now this Friday is a bit different. I am surrounded by boxes still. My brain seems to be going faster than the rest of me still. I seem to get further behind than surging ahead.

I need to calm my mind down to focus on my writing. My solution for this? Well of course, my Friday Focus. I am sitting down and planning. Writing down all of what I need to do. All the goals I have for the coming month. You know Tuesday is the first of July right?

A detailed list of goals and a method to get there will help with my scattered brain. It helps define my focus. Focus is a huge thing. Don’t just take my word for it. Read Alyssa’s Life From My Laptop to see how her focus is helping her define her business goals. How often do you sit down and evaluate your goals and focus? How often do you sit down and see how far you’ve gotten towards that goal?

This Friday as I clear my desk, I will be intensely looking at my focus and goals. I am going to make it a new goal to do this every Friday, so I keep that laser focus that I need!

First off can you believe there is only this monday and next and then we will be in June? Time is just whirling around us isn’t it?

My mom tells me I work best under pressure. That when the time comes closer to a deadline the better at work that I get. Well this week I hope she is right!

7 days from today the movers will arrive to pack up my household belongings. That same day I have a writing deadline. Talk about crunch time!

Do deadlines motivate you? I am not the procrastinator I know some of my family members are, but I do have to admit I do have a tendency to put things off.

That being said some of my best work has come about when I know that I just have to get it done. What is it that motivates so many of us to do our best work under the gun?

Recently chatting to a friend online I have told her that after this move I will not be so disorganized in my life and business once I move. And I really do have this as a goal. To space out both my housework and my writing work to avoid this “last minute surge of activity”. How will this affect my creativity? Will it affect my creativity?

These are all things that I am going to be looking into, and more than writing about as I face this issue in the future. Until then, how does working under pressure motivate you? or do you not work well under pressure???

Have a great week! And stay motivated!