"21 Ways to Thrive When You Have No Motivation to Do Anything"

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1. Use action to create motivation.

2. Relish the process, not the outcome.

3. Shift your attention to benefitting others.
4. Focus on little wins.

5. Game-ify your approach.

6. Use artificial constraints to stimulate your creativity.
7. See life as a series of 2-3 week experiments.

8. Truly understand your why.

9. Imagine future regret to clarify your priorities.
10. Lower your expectations.

11. Embrace shitty first drafts.

12. Regularly refuel with inspiration.
13. Organize your space like a kindergarten classroom.

14. Build in accountability to raise the stakes.

15. Don’t just small-ify your goals, weird-ify them.
16. Use journaling to break through mental cobwebs.

17. Visualize your progress (and your plan).

18. Recognize opportunities to “Up-cycle”.
19. Fake it: pretend to be a more motivated person.

20. Just get your body moving.

21. Get out of the building.
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