How exploring your activation patterns can help you get things done.
Motivation means drive and interest toward or away from something, but activation is what gets you there.Boring or difficult tasks take more mental effort, so activating to them is harder to do.
Cassie, a young adult I knew many years ago, was excited about starting a fabulous new job at a sought-after design firm. She was highly motivated to do well. She had always been a high achiever and was driven to do the hard work to shine in her new position. Unfortunately, over the course of the next several months, she developed crushingthat became so severe she was missing work and falling behind on her projects.
One common strategy is to build in more immediate motivators to help us activate to those less desired tasks. For me, it was M&Ms. I was motivated to do well in medical school so I could graduate and become a doctor. I had strong motivation to study for exams, but activating to that task was painful for me and required short-term motivators, including M&M breaks at certain time intervals during my library sessions.
Energy and mood factors significantly affect motivation and activation. Say I am looking forward to seeing a friend because I anticipated a positive, happy experience. Usually, it doesn’t feel like a heavy mental effort to activate to the tasks to make it happen—such as reaching out, scheduling, and planning. But if my neighbor has taken up nighttime drum practice and I’m exhausted, then no matter how motivated I am, activating to the tasks will be much more difficult.
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