How to Trick Yourself Into Feeling More Motivated

A counterintuitive strategy for getting back on track

Lauren Allain
Forge
Published in
2 min readMar 18, 2021

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Surely I’m not the only one who has found it difficult to focus and work efficiently recently, by which I mean for the past year or so. But I’ve also discovered an unexpected trick for getting work done in difficult times: You don’t need to find your own productivity if you can borrow it…

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