301: Rewarding Myself in a Way that Actually Works Podcast
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Do your attempts to reward yourself seem to backfire? Or just not work? I’ve tried motivating myself to get stuff done by promising that I can do something fun after, but I end up renegotiating with myself. I’ve found that natural rewards for doing what I need to do are more effective. They are harder […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi y'all, it's Dana. If you're listening to older episodes, I am coming to you from the future. |
| 0:04.9 | April of 2023 to be exact, I'm so excited that my new podcast host allows me to do this. |
| 0:11.1 | Since I know many of you who listen are listening to earlier episodes or you're skipping around, |
| 0:16.2 | and I want to be sure that you hear the news that the Take Your Houseback course is on sale |
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| 0:53.6 | to learn more. Again, that's aslabcomesclean.com-take now back to our regularly scheduled programming. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome to AslabcomesClean, the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over at aslabcomesclean.com. That's |
| 1:09.8 | where I share my personal deslabification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own home and |
| 1:16.1 | or control, I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work |
| 1:20.4 | in real life for real people, people who don't love cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining |
| 1:25.2 | me today. This is podcast number 301 and I think I'm going to call it rewards that don't backfire |
| 1:33.5 | or rewarding myself in a way that actually works or whatever. Because rewards are tricky for people |
| 1:43.8 | like me. That's what we're going to talk about is sometimes the things that seem to logically |
| 1:53.2 | be the things that would motivate someone. I'm super good at rebelling against those and being |
| 1:58.8 | like, hmm, doesn't motivate me. I'm special. Anyway, so we're going to talk about that mindset and |
| 2:05.3 | also the rewards that actually do work are rethinking rewarding yourself. But I wanted to tell y'all |
| 2:11.9 | and I didn't work it into my little intro, but I should have and I probably will in the future. |
| 2:18.4 | But decluttering at the speed of life, hit the Wall Street Journal of a Cell or list. I think it was |
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