Suggestions for keeping motivation and focus at work?

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Try the Pomodoro technique, where you work for certain intervals of time and then take 5-15 minute breaks. Helps with focus and concentration. Once you get in the work state, it helps you become more motivated, too

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I tried this and I was so shocked that it works. Silly little brain, it needs breaks!

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Performance enhancing drugs or multiple children at home.

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Got it. I have mouths to feed (in the form of children) and it certainly doesn’t help me focus anymore.

I use a small thought exercise for the emotional opposition to working. I go “What would happen if you just did it tho?”

Even for the dullest task the logical answer is “Then it would be off your plate” and the relief of that is often enough to inspire me to start

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