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Doing Things We Don’t Want To Do
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items Oh, you don't struggle with this? I want to meet you please. And follow you around. But not in a weird way, just to learn your secrets. In the meantime, here are some assorted resources and tips for the rest of us.
This is the original inspiration for this list. Sometimes you just need to do things!
Stupid Healthy Choices 🙃
My cats tried to keep me in bed. I took a walk. I felt much better. This is a good reminder.
Kelli Dunham-RN. Comedian on Instagram: "#catsknowbetter"
Understanding the physiology of motivation (and how modern life impacts it) is so so so helpful. I liked the audio version of this book as well.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence a book by Anna Lembke
Jessica McCabe is a youtube creator who has ADHD and has developed a great community for folks with ADHD and then also wrote a great book about it! This book is written for folks with nuerodiverse brains (as McCabe says) but it also taught me so much...
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) a book by Jessica McCabe
This is a good overview of the science of motivation.
How to Trick Your Brain into Doing Hard Things
Another higher level overview that includes some specific motivational tricks.
How To Trick Your Brain Into Doing Hard Things
This is written for a specific crowd (folks who are visual artists procrastinating about doing their art) but it was helpful to me to hear that all sorts of folks in all sorts of situations struggle with this, and that similar tips and tricks can hel...
Time to stop procrastinating. Here’s how.
Okay okay I know everyone discovered the Lazy Genius before me. But the author (Kendra Adachi) has some interesting takes on what is really harm reduction for modern life and distraction. Here she works with a couple about kitchen stuff mainly actual...
The Lazy Genius Kitchen Ep. 5 – The Liquid Index with Andy & Sarah Baxter
I've learned a lot from Todd Henry over the years, he's kind of a getting things done guru for the creative set. If you're struggling to build routines into your freelance life especially, this might he helpful for you as well. So much content! He's ...
The Accidental Creative Podcast - Accidental Creative
If you struggle with getting creative things done (I first heard of this book on Todd Henry's Accidental Creative podcast) this talk by the author of the War of Art might help with mindset around that! Or it did me anyway, his is like a working class...
Win The WAR of ART & Unlock Your Creative Potential | Steven Pressfield
I'm not recommending anyone pay for Brian Tracy's work because he definitely has some anti immigrant views that border on..well, really bad BUT you can listen for free to his best selling anti procrastination handbook here. I found some helpful nugge...
Eat That Frog By Brian Tracy (Audio Book)
This is a relatively short animated version of the takeaways from Pressfield's War of Art. If you're attention span isn't long enough for the whole book (it's short but yknow, still a book) definitely check this video out. But you'll need to watch no...
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Animation "Book of the Moment"
Okay you're not going to enjoy listening to this, I don't know whether the narrator is an AI tool or just a really bad voice actor choice but it's got some great little nuggets on motivating yourself, all very actionable.
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself By Steve Chandler (Audio Book)
I'm still looking for stoicism based inspirational material that doesn't reference dead white guys, but until I find that, here's some actionable tips from that tradition.
12 Stoic Lessons That Will Immediately Change Your Life – Ryan Holiday
This isn't the audio book itself but a pretty good summary, again, with some actionable steps.
How to Trick Your Brain to Like Doing Hard Things – Atomic Habits by James Clear
If you truly don't enjoy hard work or are kind of “self identified lazy person” this video about a millennial's work focus transformation might be helpful to you!
How I Tricked My Brain to Love Hard Work