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Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 109.

Today's episode is about how to make yourself work even when you

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But today, as we continue our journey to finding a new year, true you, our focus is about getting

motivated. We're going to talk about the basics of motivation and procrastination, two best friends.

So we're going to talk about how to jumpstart yourself when you're not in the mood to do much of anything at all.

And I'll be sharing six ways to stop procrastinating and get moving.

So have you ever wanted to work on something or tackle a project,

but you find yourself just talking about it and never actually doing it?

Some people think it's because they're not motivated enough.

They think they don't have the drive or the ambition that's needed. So they blame themselves

and they feel discouraged about not having the willpower that they think they really need

to reach their goals or their dreams. But maybe it's not only about the internal drive or the

ambition you have. Sometimes our lack of forward progress could be more about procrastination.

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