Whenever I find myself in a situation where I'm feeling too lazy about doing something I know would be beneficial to me during the long run, I try to remind myself about something I like to call the dirty dishes theory. It is a theory I had developed myself as a way to motivate myself into doing something I don't want to do by creating a bigger enemy out of any situation that I'm in or about to go into.
You see, there used to be a time when I used to hate doing my dishes. I would do it regardless, but I hated the process, but luckily for me, I hated having dirty dishes even more than I hated cleaning them. And somehow, my hatred for dirty plates overpowered my hatred for cleaning them, to the point where cleaning them no longer felt like work or something I hated anymore, and that solved the problem.
These days, you would hardly find any dirty dishes lying around because I always make sure to take care of them as soon as possible. But you see, I've gone further to apply this method to many other aspects of my life.
I've always hated having to go serve my country for a year, having to spend three weeks away from home, surrounded by strangers and military personnel. But then what I hated more was seeing a job opportunity online and not being able to apply for it simply because I didn't have the complete documents that I would need to apply, documents that I would have gotten if I had gone and completed that one-year service.
So because my hatred for having to lose a good job opportunity was a lot more than that of living with strangers for three weeks, I had been able to go ahead and do what needed to be done, and I've been thanking my stars that I did.
