The importance of action
Work is action. You must make some movements, actions. Sometimes a person cannot work because he is simply lazy. However, one fact is forgotten here: the material world in which all people live understands only actions. You can make plans as much as you like, dream about something, visualize the future, etc. However, in reality, you will get what you put physical effort into.
Work requires action. The world understands only the actions of a person, followed by consequences in the form of results. At work, the result is money. The conclusion suggests itself: if you do not act, that is, work, then no one will pay you wages.
Your employer only understands your actions. Your household only understands actions. Elementary examples: if you don’t wash the dishes, then she won’t do it herself; If you don’t hug your wife, then she won’t give herself the sensations that you would give her.
Actions are what lead you to results. And the results themselves depend on what actions you take. By the way, lying on the couch and doing nothing is also an action that leads to certain consequences - poverty, lack of money, lack of a girlfriend, job, etc.
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Concentration
If you work on one task without being distracted by anything, your work efficiency increases up to 4 times! This is a time-tested fact, make sure that no one distracts you, focus completely on what you are doing, eliminating all distractions. The ability to concentrate is trained, it is useful to improve this skill with additional exercises, it gradually develops and as a result you get increased efficiency.
Exercise to develop attention and concentration
It is very simple and allows you to achieve good results, you will need a watch with hands, for two minutes you focus on the second hand, watching the progress of its movement and not being distracted by anything else, then for 3-5 minutes you do the same with the minute hand, a higher level of exercise is observing the movement of the hour hand for 15 minutes, this exercise perfectly develops attention.
Business requires action
Let's consider another stereotype. Many modern people strive not to work for hire, but to open their own businesses. What motivates them to do this? The desire to do nothing while passively receiving money. However, where are they wrong?
In the modern world, a trend has begun that people increasingly want to leave work for hire and start their own business. Owning your own business most often means that you are doing what you like. Although there are also businesses that are focused on making money rather than self-satisfaction.
The most important indicator of a person’s correct choice is his success in the field where he works. And here it doesn’t matter whether he works for hire or has created his own business, it is important that the business brings the person what he wants to receive. There are people who want to receive large amounts of money. There are people who are more focused on doing what they love. But in any case, the main thing remains one thing - the result that a person receives. If he is satisfied with it, then the person is doing everything right.
Whether you work or earn money with your own business, there is an important thing to remember: any job requires work and action. Many people are mistaken that owning an organized business should save them from hassle and work activities. Even in business, you need to work hard to start earning money. And if you don’t take action, grab your success by the throat, then you can become a failure.
An unsuccessful person is not one who works for hire, but one who has chosen his own niche of activity and does nothing to succeed in it and have high incomes and successes. It doesn’t matter whether you work or have your own business, the main thing is whether your business brings the results that you want to achieve. After all, the main thing is not whether you work for someone or for yourself. Another thing is important: is your business bringing you the success you expected to achieve?
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alexander Zhuravlev
Owner of the Eurotime company
- Of course, it is possible to force people to work - the carrot and the stick have not been canceled yet, but the desire to work can only be motivated - this is the fundamental difference. Work done with desire is incomparably more effective and successful. I am sure that if you properly motivate an employee, then there will be no need for prohibitions, surveillance, eavesdropping, or other draconian methods that humiliate a person’s dignity and provoke an unhealthy atmosphere of total suspicion in the team. I am a supporter of democratic, but by no means fraternal relations. Although in certain cases both authoritarianism and, alas, that same “stick” are needed, I still rely on the “carrot”.
Oksana Bondarenko
The president
— The most difficult thing is to force yourself to think about work during rest. But sometimes you have to. Although I find it quite easy to concentrate. I just sit down at the computer and gather my thoughts. As for subordinates, there are many different methods. I'm a pretty strict leader. If you are not interested in working for us, good riddance. We do not force employees. First of all, I count on consciousness, and, of course, wages. The ruble stimulates.
Why can't you force yourself to work?
The simplest solution to the problem is the advice of many people: “Make yourself work!” It’s easy to say, but hard to do, because many people tried to force themselves to work, but it either didn’t help, or it helped, but not for long. It turns out you can’t force yourself to work. Why? What to do in this case?
If you force yourself, then you contradict yourself. On the one hand, you don't want to work. Moreover, note that this desire is sincere, real. On the other hand, you force yourself to work. Moreover, this instruction is not real, coming from the soul. Which desire do you think will win this fight?
- Try to force yourself not to eat when you are hungry.
- Try to force yourself not to sleep when you really want to.
Some desires and needs may not be realized. Although sooner or later they will still force you to act rashly. But when you consciously force yourself to do something “useful”, “socially significant”, “what is needed”, these motives often lose out.
If you force yourself, you will definitely lose. You can force yourself for a while. However, the very next day everything will have to be repeated all over again.
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I'll do it tomorrow...
Forget about tomorrow, do today. Tomorrow is the cemetery of all undertakings, develop the habit of acting immediately, do not put things off for a long time. Putting off until later is a bad habit and the reason for failure and blockage in business, if the task facing you is cumbersome and complex, start doing it a little at a time, but constantly and the matter will move from a dead point, as they say, water wears away a stone.
Now I hope you understand how to force yourself to work and achieve more in less time, for a complete understanding, watch the video on the topic of the article.
How to motivate yourself?
To get started, you need to find an effective way to motivate yourself. There is no desire to work because there is no motivation - the so-called “carrot” that will encourage you to act, generate strength and energy. How to motivate yourself?
- Plan your day. Sometimes you don’t want to work simply because you don’t have a clear picture of how the day will go. It seems like it will be difficult to get work done today. However, today will definitely be different from yesterday. Plan your working day, enter into the schedule all the tasks that need to be completed, and also indicate the time for completing each task. It may turn out that the work will take little time.
- Self-punishment. What will you do if you don't complete the work planned? This is a very important point. Come up with something that you don't want to lose. For example, if you don’t complete the job, you will give another person (you choose who) a certain amount of money. Or if you don't get the job done, you'll refuse sex for the day. You should have some kind of punishment: what will happen if you are lazy and don’t do anything that is necessary and planned?
- What is the purpose of your actions? No person will feel good while doing work if he does not know why he is doing it. For example, it is difficult to learn English if you do not understand why you need it. However, it is much easier to study if you have a dream of going to countries where you will have to speak English. So what goals will you achieve if you do the work? Moreover, these goals should be pleasant to you and bring moral satisfaction.
Inconvenience makes a person act
Do you want to force yourself to do something? Make it so you want to do it.
A person never changes under the pressure of others. Never before has a person changed just because other people want him to. That is why there are many stories about how people demand something from each other, quarrel, but nothing changes in their lives.
There is only one thing that can force a person to change or do something - life circumstances. Note that persuasion, conversations, ultimatums have never changed people (they pretended, agreed to be different for a while, but did not change, then everything came back again). And only life circumstances changed them.
- A child will never leave his father's house if his parents allow him to do whatever he wants.
- A man will never start earning money until he himself feels what it’s like to live without it.
- A person will never begin to solve his problems until they affect him personally or interfere with his happiness.
- A man will never conquer a woman if he already receives everything he needs from her.
- A woman will never stop communicating with her friends until they interfere with her personal happiness.
Only life's difficulties can force a person to change or start doing something. Therefore, if you want to achieve something, create conditions in which not achieving what you want will lead to inconvenience. You should be uncomfortable with what you don't do. Otherwise, all words, persuasion, requests, etc. will be empty talk that will not lead to the desired result.
Create conditions for yourself that will be uncomfortable for you personally. Uncomfortability will make you think about how to change the situation to make it more comfortable. Then you will start doing what you want. Moreover, this will be your desire to act, which is much more important and more effective than a simple agreement. When a person personally makes a decision, he himself takes upon himself the responsibility to do something and monitor the process of implementing his plan. And when people simply agree on something, they are usually less active. They look at whether the terms of the contract are being fulfilled by other people or not. If they are fulfilled, then they begin to fulfill their responsibilities, but without much desire, poorly and in a hurry.
Make sure that the problem that worries you interferes with a happy existence. Don’t demand, don’t criticize, don’t force, but make the problematic situation uncomfortable for yourself. Then the life situation will make you want to change or do something to get rid of difficulties, that is, achieve that result, solve a problem or do what you want.
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Motivation
Good motivation contributes to achievements, motivation can be external - when a person acts under the influence of external factors, for example, when schoolchildren study for grades, high scores motivate, but as studies show, such students after finishing school do not strive for knowledge at all, external pressure has disappeared and motivation has disappeared, external motivation often runs counter to internal desires, which causes displeasure and discomfort. Another type of motivation is motivation due to internal factors, the simplest option is awareness of the goal and the pursuit of it, the goal becomes the highest priority and thanks to this all obstacles are overcome, then they say “the work in your hands is on fire.” Another type of motivation is path motivation, this is a more serious level, it arises from a simple question that is sometimes difficult to answer: “What do I want to devote my life to?” This could be some kind of global goal or mission.
Change job
How are you feeling? Do you have time to rest, and do you follow the plan for fulfilling your duties?
Have you still not started work yet, are you feeling tired and apathetic?
You are probably just tired, and at the moment only a change of work environment will help.
Hurry up, grab your laptop and go outside to the nearest pleasant cafe. Order a cup of your favorite drink and enjoy the work process.
It will be great to do some of the work in the park. Just imagine: the absence of four walls, fresh air, birdsong. This should definitely invigorate you and send you on a new wave of performance.
Yes, yes, I understand, not everyone can afford such a radical change of environment, and basically this solution is suitable for a person who works remotely. Such employees are not tied to an office and to perform their duties they only need a laptop and Internet access. Agree, a great option for work!
If your work involves being in the office all the time, try talking to your manager. Explain that you can cope with tasks while being outside the workplace. Promise that you will do the job just as well, or even better. And of course, try to keep your promises, because there is an excellent opportunity not only to increase your productivity, but also to increase the status of a responsible person.
You couldn’t come to an agreement with your manager and you don’t know where to run from stress. Urgently think about changing jobs. You do not risk anything, since the situation has already gone beyond unpleasant sensations. If you remain in the same workplace, year after year you will experience a feeling of dissatisfaction, which will further increase irritation towards work responsibilities. Over time, the work will become simply unbearable.
By the way, isn’t it time to master a remote profession? Think about it.
The meaning of the labor process
First, we need to decide why we perform this or that algorithm every day, and whether we are doing everything correctly. If a failure occurs in one of the points of this plan, then the person says to himself: “I don’t want to work.” This means that he does not have the motivation to perform certain functions, in which case he needs to change them to other responsibilities or look for another field of activity.
- to receive a monetary reward, but here you can fall into a trap: the more you get, the more you want, saturation does not occur, because this is a kind of vicious circle - you need money to eat, but you need to eat so that you have the strength to work; it is required to spend the income received wisely;
- for self-development - being inactive, a person begins to degrade physically, psychologically and intellectually, by engaging in socially useful work, a person prolongs his life;
- to achieve the final result, which is expressed in the benefit brought to a specific person, group of people or an indefinite circle of people, the result may not always be obvious: it will appear after some time;
The main task is to combine the need and desire to work; for this you need to find the right motivation and strive to follow it.
Work is needed for income and self-development
Planning
It's only Monday, stop dreaming about the weekend. We have sorted out the future gifts, raised your spirits, and now we need to get to work.
It is very important that you do not become too exhausted, and that the desire for work does not disappear after we have raised it a little. To do this, it would be good to distribute work responsibilities evenly throughout the day, week, or better yet, month
To do this, it would be good to distribute work responsibilities evenly throughout the day, week, or better yet, month.
You shouldn’t put too much work on Monday, as you will feel very tired, which will lead to decreased performance on Tuesday.
Why torture yourself when you can perform your duties in such a way that there is time for a short rest between tasks.
We will distribute responsibilities on paper or in special programs on a computer: Word or XL, and don’t let this scare you. Yes, I understand, I don’t want to waste time filling out unnecessary paperwork. Still, don’t be lazy to do the preparatory work. Believe me, you will appreciate these actions later.
So, write down the responsibilities that need to be resolved within a certain time. Next, distribute them by day and week, and so on for the whole month. In fact, this will only need to be done once if work duties are repeated from month to month.
I also advise you to leave a small piece of time for unforeseen situations, because this can also happen, right?
That's all, my dear readers. You come to work, take out your to-do list and complete it. The main thing is not to mope and act according to plan.
Discipline and self-organization
I used to always be amazed by organized and disciplined people who can work with concentration when they need to do it. And for this they do not need a boss who will urge and control them. They do not require any special office work environment: they can work at home and at the same time resist the temptation to lie down and be lazy. They are completely independent and autonomous. They know how to plan, set goals and achieve these goals.
My admiration for these people was mixed with envy, for the reason that I myself lacked discipline and needed it very much. Work always fell out of my hands, I was constantly distracted by something, I was late with deadlines, and some tasks remained unfulfilled. I didn’t have any schedule or plan; I could start doing something only when there was a serious deadline or someone started urging me on. It is clear that the quality and efficiency of such work in such conditions always left much to be desired.
But now a lot has changed. Every day I work on filling and setting up two sites (this blog and its English-language counterpart - nperov.com), plus I do my main job
(I won’t prevaricate too much and honestly say that at my main job, I’m not very busy yet, but, nevertheless, I work a lot, including on my own projects - the blog takes up a lot of my time time.) I can work at home, in the office - it doesn’t matter. I learned to get things done, to work methodically and not to be distracted by extraneous stimuli.
I will tell you here what principles helped me with this.
