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1. The 15-Minute Bribe

If procrastination has you in its grip, try bribing your brain. Promise yourself if you work for just 15 minutes, you can turn your attention to something less stressful or more pleasurable. Because of your brain's Drive for Closure, once you start, your brain will push you toward completion.

2. Do It Badly

If the need to do something perfectly is keeping you from attempting it at all, try to do it badly. Yes, you have always heard, "if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well," but perfection can get in the way of trying and learning. Once you have jumped the initial hurdle, you can always do it again, better.

3. Conquer Your Nervous Mouth

You are about to give a presentation, speech, or interview, and your mouth is as dry as the desert. Visualize yourself biting into a lemon, a sour-apple candy or another sour edible. Because of conditioning created through repetition, the memory of that sour taste will trigger your salivary glands, and your mouth will be dry no more.

4. Use Milestones And Touchstones

To keep yourself motivated for the long haul, focus on milestones and touchstones. Milestones help you recognize and track your progress. They can be dates, steps, or small tasks, and they work best if you use a tangible tracker to visually remind yourself of your progress, such as a thermometer, a step ladder, a chart, or a checklist.

Touchstones provide motivation by reminding you why you are pursuing a goal or working on a project. Touchstones are intangible -- the feelings -- but they are more powerful when represented by something tangible, such as a picture or object.

5. Take the Roundabout

When it comes to thinking, especially creative thinking, the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line. Trying to think in a linear (straight line) fashion crushes creativity. Instead, approach your creative thinking target sideways, backwards, or even by thinking about something else.

6. Chunk It Up

Have you ever had one of those weeks where the only thing that changed on your to-do list was the date at the top? If you have a giant to-do list, chunk it up by choosing a few small tasks to accomplish and circling them on your list. Tell your brain that those are the tasks that must be tackled that day. Because of your brain's Drive for Closure, accomplishing small tasks will motivate you to do more.

7. Focus On What You Can Do

If you are faced with change (or a new and intimidating situation), instead of focusing on what is difficult, scary, or impossible, focus on what you can do. Because What You Focus On Expands, if you focus on the possible, your brain will expand the possible and help you make the change.

8. Practice Makes Easy

Mom was right when she told you to keep practicing. When you learn something new, your brain is actually building new physical connections. So, the first few times you try something new, it might feel strange and difficult. However, after some practice, your brain strengthens those connections and the strange begins to feel easier and more familiar.

9. Creativity Is In the Box

To solve problems or generate ideas, put your information in a box. The "box" can be literal or it can be figurative. You can use a whiteboard, a folder, a box, a sketch pad or a notebook. The point is to put all of your ideas, clues, or information in one place so that your brain can work its connective magic.

10. The Power Of A Theme Song

Would you like to feel happy, powerful, energetic, or confident whenever you choose? Use a song to condition yourself. Pick a song that will be your trigger and sing it at least three times a day. While you are singing, think happy, powerful, energetic, or confident thoughts. After a few weeks of practicing this ritual, you will be able to trigger those thoughts simply by singing or humming your theme song.

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Shannon Bradford is a life & business coach, corporate trainer, writer, and the author of Brain Power (2002). Learn about how to get more done, feel less stress, and enjoy more success with free resources at Mind Capital.

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