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This happens to me alot. Let me see how do I deal with this. Firstly, it maybe my personality- Resource Investigator then secondary Plant. Both type of of per
by chegra 16y ago
This happens to me alot. Let me see how do I deal with this.
Firstly, it maybe my personality- Resource Investigator then
secondary Plant. Both type of of personalities are creative but get bored of things pretty quickly. Working along side a Sharper generally solves this problem. For more about belbin have a read: http://www.teambuilding.co.uk/belbin-team-role.html http://www.teambuilding.co.uk/belbin-team-role.html
If I'm by myself. I generally make the time scale large. Like right now, I'm trying to read a 373 page book. I could read it in a day. But instead, I am going to do it over 4 days. So generally, I expand my expected time for success. I talk about it in this post: http://chegra.posterous.com/consistently-underperforming http://chegra.posterous.com/consistently-underperforming
Also, when I'm finished a small task, I announce it on my twitter and facebook. The likes and the comments generally boost motivations. So, maybe like every two days I have some kind of news to report on what I'm doing.
Like, I finish my low fidelity mockup design. I try as much as possible not to mention the future, it decreases your motivation for getting stuff done. Apparently, the brain rewards you for just saying you are going to do it and your friends too, hence no incentives to complete the task. So, do it afterwards and obtain the rewards from there.
- rmoriz 16y agoI tried once to involve a junion partner (but 50/50) in one project. The idea was to give him a ruby introduction but with the main focus for him to do others things so that I can code e.g. he should checking out support-SaaS, googlemail, terms and conditions. I thought that both partners are going to motivate themselves, don't allow one to procrastinatel off the roads. In the end it did not work out. He raised more "no go" concerns than even I have when I start failing a project, e.g.: A 2 hour discussion about: "when we focus on the US, who does support at night? I'LL NEVER STAY UP READING EMAIL TO 2AM EVERY SECOND DAY. I CAN'T DO THAT." That was after approx. three weeks. Nothing worked yet. No customers of course. TL;DR I try to find cofounders but usually they have less motivation than I have. I probably don't do me a favour.