051: How to Get Motivated to Start Your Passion Project
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Getting started on your passion project and staying motivated can feel difficult. Today, I'm discussing how our mindset plays a big role in how we work, and ways you can shift your thinking so that actionable steps are taken towards your passion project. I'll give you examples of how you can better prioritize what's important so you consistently feel motivated, your deadlines are met, and goals are achieved.
What's In This Episode:
• Three key reasons why you're procrastinating getting started on your big goals.
• Why we need to eliminate the word "lazy" from our vocabulary.
• Actionable tips for creating and maintaining a motivational mindset that will change the way you think about your work.
• How to create a motivation plan for yourself so you can tackle your passion project.
• Examples of how you can set up penalties and hold yourself accountable so that you can make deadlines work for you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquwell Press, and this is episode 51. |
| 0:29.7 | Today, we're going to be talking about how to actually motivate yourself to start that passion project. |
| 0:36.2 | But before we get started, I want to give a quick shout |
| 0:38.4 | out to today's sponsor, Inkwell Press. Incwell Press is a company focused on creating |
| 0:44.0 | high quality and effective productivity tools so you can start living your beautiful, successful |
| 0:49.9 | life today. You can check out the complete line of productivity and planning products at |
| 0:54.5 | inkwellpress.com, and I'll be sharing a little bit more later on in the episode. But let's go |
| 0:59.4 | ahead and get started. I want to talk first of all about why do we push things off when we really |
| 1:04.7 | want to move towards our goals and our big dreams? Well, a lot of times we're procrastinating. We have to figure out why you're |
| 1:13.1 | procrastinating in the first place and then use a strategy to tackle that reason. And there are three |
| 1:18.6 | key reasons that contribute. Reason one, well, you're afraid of messing up the project. So you put it off. |
| 1:25.9 | It's also known as the fear of failure. And I could spend |
| 1:29.7 | several minutes of the entire episode really going over this. But really, if this is your reason, |
| 1:36.1 | head on over to episode 42 where I really dive into this fear. Reason number two, you don't |
| 1:42.9 | know what you're doing. I'm going to let you in on a little |
| 1:45.8 | bit of a secret. No one knows what they're doing. We're all fumbling around trying to do our best. |
| 1:53.0 | There isn't anyone out there who has all the answers to everything. Boy, wouldn't that be nice. |
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