30. Perform your little rituals
See yourself as a shaman or medicine man who needs to dance and sing to get the healing started. Make up a ritual that is yours and yours alone—a ritual that will be your own shortcut to self-motivation.
As you read through these various ways to motivate yourself, you might have noticed that action is often the key. Doing something is what leads to doing something. It’s a law of the universe: An object in motion stays in motion.
The great basketball player Jack Twyman used to begin each practice session by getting to the court early and taking 200 shots at the basket. It always had to be 200 shots, which he counted out, and it didn’t matter if he already felt tuned up after 20 or 30 shots. He had to shoot 200. ...
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