Motivational brain dump

Date: 2024-07-04

This is a brain dump of some motivational phrases and tactics.

10 minute rule

Telling myself to just try something for 10 minutes and that I can quit or go for a walk afterwards if I don't feel like it seems to work for me. I end up doing things for longer.

Starting small

It's ok to take time to ramp up. If I don't want to do everything, then I can just do a little.

One way of doing this is making a lot of commits. It makes a small amount of work feel like a lot (and is good general practice), which sounds like a bad thing, but it's better than no work and if you keep it up, it'll eventually result in a lot of work.