Various and Sundry Writing

Motivation for Procrastinators

Since I wanted to cover motivation for the next few Mondays, as I mentioned last week, I figured it was important to bring up procrastination. One of the most entertaining articles about the subject was written by Tim Urban on his longform blogging site, Wait, But Why. In fact, the procrastination article is actually several articles, but well worth delving into. Now, I enjoy Wait, But Why quite a bit, but what if some of…

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Writing

20 Minutes (or so) to Motivation

I realized that I have a number of potential posts that relate to motivation, so for at least the next few weeks, I’ll have Motivation Mondays! Because that sounds like exactly the kind of engagement program corporate HR would institute. Anyway, I came across a pair of articles by Melissa Dahl in New York magazine. One is about how to motivate yourself to work when you don’t want to, which provides an intro to the…

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