Staying Motivated

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
-Confucius

We’ve all had those days where things just don’t seem to go right and everything we touch appears to break. Maybe you deleted an important file that doesn’t have a backup, or you got into an argument with your spouse, or maybe it’s the Friday before a long weekend.

Whatever the reason may be, when things go wrong and continue to go wrong or if your head is in another place it can be damn near impossible to keep your motivation let alone become motivated enough to start or finish the job or task currently at hand.

On days like this I will usually step away from my work, get a tea…and I will then put my head down and keep telling myself to simply do a little bit of the work and I will keep telling myself this until eventually all those little bits of work add up to the completion of the job.

So how do you keep yourself motivated enough to either start of finish the task/job at hand on these types of days?