> If you find the work difficult and you just don't want to do it, give yourself rewards for every piece you complete within a reasonable time limit - If I finish this piece of work within this time limit, I can have a bar of chocolate, for instance.


Another related tactic is to work for a certain amount of time and then give yourself a break, also for a certain amount of time, and alternate. It helps a lot to have some way of timing, so that you don't have to worry about losing track of how long you've had a break and can easily see how much longer you need to work. You could start out working for ten minutes and having a five minute break, for example, and try working up to a ten minute break every hour. Work is easier to manage in chunks and rewards of any sort can help the feelings of discouragement that come with things like this.

Ga"A bar of chocolate is never a bad idea."halyn