Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. It's pretty much the bible on success in whatever you do.

It specifically addresses your concern. It states that successful people manage to do the things that unsuccessful people don't: the things that people generally don't like to do.

It deals with time-wasters, and how to work effectively with other people as well. But it begins where it makes sense: with the self.

Originally Posted by allaboutmusic

I thought the title of the thread was wonderfully ironic.

Originally Posted by JinnKai

If we helped you get motivation, wouldn't it no longer be self-motivation?

Originally Posted by The_Jazz

Panic. Long-term panic.

Seriously.

Think about how much you're hurting yourself by not doing the little things to make yourself suceed, and how all the folks that you're going to be competing against are doing those little things. And how many of those folks have more talent at it than you do. And how many others are just plain old luckier than you are. And how your only hope to ever have even the smallest success in your chosen field is going to take all of your meager talent, as much hard work as you can possibly put in and every ounce of luck you can scrape together. If you can't imagine **that guy over there** doing the things that you can't be bothered to do and then surpassing you at crunch time and getting the gig, then you have a problem. If the idea doesn't send cold shivers down your spine, give up now and pick something that any schuck with eyebrows can do, like demolition or truck driving.