-Come on child, finish your meal.
-No, I won't. (While running away)
-Have this last one then we are finished.
-No no, I am already done.
-Listen, your dad has bought some chocolates. I will give you those only if you finish your meal properly. Otherwise, you won't get any and I will give them to jihad(neighbors' kid)
-Really? Ok, I am eating.
These were the regular scenes from my childhood. Sometimes she would give us the chocolates and sometimes those were just lies and sometimes we would have forgotten about those chocolates later. But it was obvious that our mind used to be diverted hearing about those rewards we would get after finishing them. This is an instinct that I guess we all possess. We try to act when an incentive is set after a journey we start.
Let's get back to the present, I have a bad habit of losing dedication to something that I start often. Yeah, suppose I started learning something or doing a task, which is not a mandatory one for me to do but I intended to do, that's the situation when I get lost midway. I have faced this over and over again. This time I am trying a new strategy to experience. That's a little bit of a crazy one, it's like pulling out a thorn with another one. Sounds interesting? Let's jump in.
In most cases, I get addicted to different tv-shows and keep losing my time there instead of the other tasks I have started. Actually, I lose track of time and priorities do get changed. This time that's not going to happen, I hope so. I have divided my desired task on a daily basis and also made a lot of pieces of that too. I have promised myself to follow a set of rules- for every piece of my task I finish I will get to watch an episode of the Tv-Show I have started watching recently. Risky one right? I also hope so but I do really feel that this is going to work, if not something new will be implemented. Let's talk positively for the time being, hehe. So you see, the same reward system strategy we all have faced from our childhood, right? I feel that whenever I would feel to watch my show the first thing that will knock into my head is that one piece of task is a key to that episode. Even if I am least responsible for my task then this would surely be working. Two days have passed and I am doing good, peace!
So the thing was to reward myself with something good, that's what I am doing. We all love rewards, right? Well, all the rewards should be paid with money is not necessary, some can be done in other ways too. So if you are also facing the same kinda problems with your targets then set some appealing rewards for them, I hope that this will work for you too.
