Has anyone seen my motivation?

[papie]

I can't find it, maybe I could go look in my bed. 

How do you motivate yourself to do stuff? I'm waiting on my advisor and on my assistants (MIL and H, lol) to finish rating my surveys, so I can't do anything on my dissertation.  BUT, I could:
- start writing a paper with the first three chapters.  it involves translating to english, researching what journal I'd want to submit to, reading some articles for style, etc.
- plan my course for next fall, we are completely redesigning the undergrad program, so I have to cut out some things and add some new stuff
- plan the outline for a new course I'm building, which will be given online.  I have until december 2013 to finish it. 

But you see, NONE of those things are urgent.  So I don't want to do anything. 

I could also:
- clean my house
-finish folding the laundry
- decorate my girls' room
- paint my small bathroom
- reorganize my pantry
- purge my closets
- workout or at least go for a walk

All things on my to-do list.  But none of those things seem urgent enough to get my ass off my chair.  I think I will nest some more, read a bit, organize a bit, go for a walk and make a to-do list for the rest of the week.  I love to-do lists, lol. 

[TrickyBob]

Paint the bathroom and decorate. It also counts as exercise.

[pantsparty]

Caffeine.

[sherbanator]

I'm still in bed, let me know where you find yours.

[murdock]

Feb 6, 2013 13:38:05 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Paint the bathroom and decorate. It also counts as exercise.

I tell myself this, too.

This kind of motivation usually helps me. Stress on the 'usually'.