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How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To

By Heidi Grant

There’s that project you’ve left on the back burner—the one with the deadline that’s growing uncomfortably near. And there’s the client whose phone call you really should return—the one who does nothing but complain and eat up your valuable time. Wait, weren’t you going to try to go to the gym more often this year?

Can you imagine how much less guilt, stress, and frustration you would feel if you could somehow just make yourself do the things you don’t want to do when you are actually supposed to do them? Not to mention how much happier and more effective you would be?

The good news (and it’s very good news) is that you can get better about not putting things off if you use ...

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