Sounds like I need to shake up my work environment. I'm a creature of habit, and work in my office every single morning like clockwork. My dream is to live close to the ocean one day.

When I feel "work fatigue" coming on, I force myself to take a break and do something totally unrelated. I make bags so I'll go sew for awhile, and get myself into my right brain. Answers to fiddly little problems that were nagging me, and I couldn't figure out, sometimes work themselves out when I step away, and give my mind a break. And even they don't, the perspective is refreshing.

Achieving balance in all areas of my life allows me to keep a slow burn of motivation going for my work-related endeavors, and it also prevents burnout. If I neglect self care, my work and brain- power suffers. We are holistic beings, and every area of our lives should be in balance for optimal productivity. I focus on keeping my cup fairly full. Some days I fall short, but most of the time I succeed fairly well.

I agree with you about goals. For me, I need to have a big-picture mentality if I'm going to meet my goals. It's the big picture that keeps me motivated. The future's coming round the pike really fast, and I want to enjoy the fruits of my efforts when it does. I think a lot about consequences. What do I want my consequences in the future to be, based on my actions today? Cause and effect is a law of life.

I'm a list maker, and these lists provide a framework for my days, weeks, and months. I try not to get anal about my lists, and get bent out of shape if a task doesn't get crossed off when I thought it should. I'm better now at putting things in perspective. Setting my sites on my goals enables me to trudge through daily tasks that are daunting, and I'd rather not do.

After all, life is full of things that need to be done that we don't want to do. I have drilled this concept into my kids' heads. So what you don't want to do something. What does that have to do with the price of rice? Absolutely nothing, just go do it. And in the end it probably won't be as hard as you anticipated. Most of the time it's easier to just tackle the job head on then to think about doing it - you know, that infamous dread factor.

And finally, I try not to overthink things. I once heard someone say that trying to make everything you do perfect is a function of the ego. Spending too much time on a project ensuring that it's perfect is not a good expenditure of time and energy, and, sometimes, it's just plain egotistical. "Done is better than perfect" Perfection isn't even attainable on this planet so why kill yourself trying to attain the unattainable. It's an exercise in futility. That's not to say I don't take pride in my work, and do the best I can. I'm a realist though.

Words to live by: Do your best, be consistent, plan for the future, set goals, engage in self-care everyday, and serve others. Those are my Saturday morning musings...

Hope you all do something fun today to nourish your souls!

Holly

Yes, I do grow fatigue while I am trying to build my online business. Right now I grow real tired and have to get away from it.
I will explain this when I finish answering your questions. Things I do to motivate my self I research every topic I have to and just find out all i can about most of them. Right now my strategies will be to help others if I can.While I am building my on line business, and trying to teach any one on what I do to solve certain problems. I sure need your know how and expertise to help me going forward. Like right now I need to know how to preview theme on my web site. And now I will tell you what I mean about getting real fatigue. I just had a big operation about 3 or 4 weeks ago. It was a back operation where they went trough the front to put bars into my back. It was supposed to be a straight forward operation, but something happened and they tore a main artery, i died on table and they brought me back. there is no more pain in my lower back. but made my legs week.So i been fighting that while i am recovering from the surgery. i don" complain and i am going forward and Ignoring the Pain. sometimes it gets to me and i take a break and go watch the news. I am getting better but we are living on social sec. I had built my business to where it was worth a lot of money. But I made a big mistake. I let my son take over and left him about $200 thousand dollars to start up.And also with some ongoing jobs. To make a long story short, 2 years later he went bankrupt owing me a million dollars. But I do not think about the money. I was drawing $24000 dollars a month, and that stoped overnight. i had to keep on going or fell sorry for myself. i saw the prospect on making money on line, so here I am. i never told any about this instill now. so you see why i need help, now I am taking on the task building a business on line, because the oilfield around me dried up and everyone moved to Texas so here I am now.

Excellent tips to revive your productivity and motivation in business. I will definitely use if needed.

I am usually laid back when it comes to business and have a loose structure on what I plan to do daily/ weekly and try to be flexible with the combination of duties through prioritizing my schedule based on goals.

Having goals can act as a driving force to help keep you focused. Setting deadlines can get you fired up too.

It really comes down to discipline and being willing to do things that need to be done even when you don’t want to.

Honestly, I love the fact that what I create is mine. My passion is to help others and create passive income for the future. This makes me excited and motivates me!

Thanks,
Marcus

I typically incorporate all six in my daily! weekly task. But. there are always room for fatigue and frustration to creep in. However, I try to sort ways to have a balance in my schedule.

Also, I have learned to step back and reevaluate my goals to see if they are in alignment with my tasks.

Breaks seem to work for me, or a change in my environmental setting. Anyway, it took me two years to realize that I must take time out for me because without me nothing gets done. Louisa B

Great Post Kyle,

As mention on the precious comment by Vanessa, "Very Timely"

For me "Change the environment is a real important one" sometimes like yourself and I suspect a lot of other people just head over to the local Starbucks with my laptop order a coffee and Get STUFF done. its a real nice change of pace.

The other part to this is that I spend my Sundays just reading about what was learnt in the previous week in terms of the skills and tools, and reviewing my motivation for WHY i am in this new profession.

lastly, even though its always at the front of your mind, take some time off and "go and do something else" again like yourself and others a great way to come back Fresh.

Thanks Kyle

Great advice Kyle. My transport company closed in 2013 and I had to start a complete new career in 2014 at age 52. Long hours of studying, doing exams to get myself qualified and all this while I have to work to keep the cash-flow rolling.
I wrote a book about my life and how I managed to stand up from the setback. I also now are busy developing training to help others to stand strong again. This is part of why I need WA to teach me the skills to market via the internet. Topics I think of handling is:
1. Get your mindset right. (2014/15 for me)
2. Getting out of the ditch. (My last 3 years)
3. Re-invest and keep growing. (This is what I am doing now)
All the above steps you mentioned I personally have applied over the last 5 years.

Hi Kyle, great post!

1) Yes, but less so the longer the websites mature.
2) For us, we too like a change of scenery, so moving the RV home to a new location seems to help.
3) #6 - It is always amazing to think there are that many people online looking for things that we can help them with. So, keep that in mind and keep on keeping on!

Hey, Kyle. This is an interesting post. I find it motivating. Setting goals daily or weekly is indeed vital to helping us becoming productive and efficient. I have been taking a little break for a while but want to get more active as the time progresses.
I have felt fatigue. But, I do try to motivate myself by thinking about the joy of being successful online.
I will be thinking about which strategies that will be most useful to implement. But, so far, setting goals and helping people and reflecting on the real potential are the three points I think can motivate me.

Admittedly, I'm feeling a little burnt out from uploading six articles a week for the past month. It's getting harder to come up with what to write that has me motivated.

I'll probably take a day to not write anything and just focus on comments and lower level stuff.

Thanks for the advice, Kyle :)

This is a very interesting post, Kyle. Looking at what I do I suppose one of the approaches I take, perhaps unknowingly, is to have more than one thing going at a time. By this I mean I may be working on an issue for a company I freelance, for, collaborating on a book with another colleague, writing content on a niche. What I find is that this makes me think things through on many planes and I often find that there is good cross thinking results between them. It may not seem to be an efficient way of working but in reality I drop one issue off my thinking radar if I can’t solve it (or don’t have the motivation to take it further), and at some future time, maybe today, tomorrow the solution often pops up because I am working on something else. This enables me to keep my motivation going. Just occasionally though the best way for me is the daily walk with the dogs in the morning, get great ideas then which I have to make a note of at the time or they disappear. Hope this makes sense, Hudson.