Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
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Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#2Point 9 ("Realize that there's an ebb and flow") is definitely something to remember. Even when I'm really motivated on a project, the motivation never seems to last for longer than weeks. I guess knowing that this happens to every body, and thus knowing to simply ride out the troughs (so to speak) is the best way forward.
A quote I like which sums this point up is: "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommended it daily."
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#3Exercise. It gives you energy and takes your mind of things for a while. We're not meant to sit on our buts in front of a screen all day. I know it's hard when you're tired and overworked, but it's indispensible.
Also, sleep and eat well.
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#4i've been trying to pull out a smarty pants comment relating this article to the robot on Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, without success, i feel saaad beer
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the point was that having a few beers helps, with a good friend. sometimes it's a sign of exhaustion/burnout and a change of scenery really helps
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#5Exercise. It gives you energy and takes your mind of things for a while. We're not meant to sit on our buts in front of a screen all day. I know it's hard when you're tired and overworked, but it's indispensible. Also, sleep and eat well.
I totally agree with you. After spending a couple of hours on a project, I go on a treadmill for 30 min to clear my head and focus on something else.
It really allows me to refocus my energy toward the project again after the workout.
Working out allows me to work more efficiently and keeps the body healthy, needed in every programmers life.
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#6A similar article that basically boils it down to one step: http://rejectiontherapy.com/awaken-your-motivation-in-one-ea...
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#7Exercise. It gives you energy and takes your mind of things for a while. We're not meant to sit on our buts in front of a screen all day. I know it's hard when you're tired and overworked, but it's indispensible. Also, sleep and eat well.
+1
Really though to start exercising, but after a week or so it becomes energizing.
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#86. Commit publicly.
Gave me an idea.
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#9Exercise. It gives you energy and takes your mind of things for a while. We're not meant to sit on our buts in front of a screen all day. I know it's hard when you're tired and overworked, but it's indispensible. Also, sleep and eat well.
+1 Really though to start exercising, but after a week or so it becomes energizing.
Exercise is feeling like crap for a half hour, to feel great the rest of the day.
Re: Get Off Your Butt: How to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
#106. Commit publicly. Gave me an idea. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131849
Wasn't there research published sometime last year showing the opposite to be true? (When you tell other people your goal) or what you are doing/going to do, you internalize "I'm doing it" and then ... don't!).
I know for me it's true -- I'm much more likely to get the things completed that I haven't told others that I'm working on.