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How to motivate yourself with Newton's law?
Newton's law of motion is a basic physical law, but it also helps us understand how to motivate ourselves.
How to motivate yourself with Newton's law?
Newton's law of motion is a basic physical law, but it also helps us understand how to motivate ourselves.
This law states that an object at rest tends to remain at rest while an object in motion tends to remain in motion. Only an external force can change its state.
To understand this better, imagine a rock standing still on top of a hill.
As long as you don't move it, the rock remains stationary. But if you exert enough force on it, it will start to move and roll down the hill.
All it needs is a little initial push to start moving. Then it rolls down the hill without any effort on your part.
This is an excellent analogy for our motivation.
When we lack motivation, we are the immobile rock on top of the hill. We don't want to move, to clean, to play sports, to do a tedious task...
So to get moving and to do all these things, we need a boost too.
So what exactly can "get us moving"?
Well, it's the 10-minute technique.
To apply this technique, it's simple, just take the task for which you lack motivation and work on it for only 10 minutes and then stop if you wish.
What's the point, you ask?
The point is to overcome the resistance you feel before doing a task.
Because in the end, the hardest thing is not doing the task itself but getting started. Once you're in it, it's much easier to keep going.
When you're watching Netflix on your couch, the hardest thing is turning off the TV and getting up to clean. Once you have the hoover in your hands, it's much easier to keep going.
When you wake up in the morning to go for a run, the hardest part is getting out of bed, putting on your gym gear and taking your first steps. Once you're moving, it's easier to keep going.
And when you want to move a rock over a hill, the hardest part is pushing it. Once it starts rolling, it rolls down the hill by itself without any effort on your part.
So the moment before the action is always the most difficult. This is why the 10-minute technique is useful.
When you tell yourself that you have to do something for only 10 minutes, you reduce the difficulty. Doing the housework for 10 minutes requires little effort and running for 10 minutes is child's play. And it is precisely because we perceive it as easy that we manage to motivate ourselves more easily.
Now how do we do it when our task takes us more than 10 minutes? Does this mean that we have to leave all our tasks unfinished?
In fact, very often we go beyond the 10 minutes. As we are caught up in our task and in the flow, we don't want to stop but to continue.
The 10 minutes actually give us the push we need to start our task. Once you're in it, you just have to let it flow and keep going until you've done it in its entirety.
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