A_618 - Just as with running, you can accelerate and decelerate, and depending on your speed, the leaps you can make also change, the same concept applies to our mind. What I'm trying to explain is that if we're demoralized and "turned off," it's as if we're stuck, whereas if we get excited and push ourselves toward a goal, then it's very likely we'll be able to achieve it better in our free time. Clearly, if a task is mandatory, this doesn't make much sense, but for something completely optional, we can also try to self-motivate and self-motivate ourselves, as if we were the audience in a stadium, and set out towards what we need to accomplish in order to finish it. It's a method that works, because our mind also has mechanisms that function thanks to emotions, so if we can associate positive emotions with a task, it becomes easier. Paradoxically, we can also create emotions ourselves, like when cheering at a stadium, and it works. But if we want, we can also read inspirational stories or talk to someone who can inspire us... they're all mechanisms that work. What perhaps few people know is that we can also inspire ourselves, just as we take a running start to jump a ditch, so we can do the same for some of the challenging tasks we have to complete. Of course, without overdoing it: it's okay to think of ourselves as athletes, but not as superheroes with who knows what powers.