Untitled

{"id":330,"date":"2024-02-18T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:38:52","slug":"the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The information out there about overcoming procrastination is geared towards decreasing the difficulty of the task. Try\u00a0 breaking the task down into smaller steps. Additionally, the 10-minute Commitment and the Two-minute Launch are procrastination hacks you can try.\u00a0 The 10-minute Commitment means you commit to working on the task for only 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, you are free to walk away. For the 10-minute commitment you might find yourself swept up and you don\u2019t want to stop.<\/p>\n

The Two-minute Launch is similar. You commit to doing the task for two minutes. But then after the two minutes you have to walk away. For the Two-minute launch, you do the task for two minutes a day for a period of time, (a week, two weeks, maybe a month), and you force yourself to stop after the two minutes. You end up craving to do more.<\/p>\n

Find out more at TSDMind.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read recently in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine procrastination can cause headaches. digestive issues, colds, insomnia, hypertension and is linked to cardiovascular disease. Another interesting fact about procrastination is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4837,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,29,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction","category-emotional-healing","category-mindfulness","category-ptsd-and-anxiety-disorders"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I've read\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I've read\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mindfulness For Addressing Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and Grief\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-18T14:38:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1630\/2024\/02\/E61-Motivation.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sarah Vallely\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sarah Vallely\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/\",\"name\":\"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-18T14:38:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-18T14:38:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#\/schema\/person\/0f2bfdf617bde8a531f2a3aba76917a4\"},\"description\":\"What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I've read\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/\",\"name\":\"Mindfulness For Addressing Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and Grief\",\"description\":\"Learn how mindfulness can reduce stress, address anxiety symptoms, heal past trauma and help you move through grief in a healthy way.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#\/schema\/person\/0f2bfdf617bde8a531f2a3aba76917a4\",\"name\":\"Sarah Vallely\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db68c87e2224b0c5f30f61819d9b8b0d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db68c87e2224b0c5f30f61819d9b8b0d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sarah Vallely\"},\"description\":\"I've been helping people reduce stress since 2001. I am the founder of TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center. TSD Mindfulness offers training and certification programs to therapists and life coaches for incorporating mindfulness into their approaches. I have been facilitating meditation workshops to a global audience for 20 years, certifying therapists, teachers, and healthcare workers to teach meditation and mindfulness. Candidates learn assessment, analysis, and facilitating over 60 tools created for client sessions. I also work with private clients who wish to address their stress, anxiety, trauma or grief. Additionally, I host a podcast called The Aware Mind. My co-host and I explore mindfulness teachings, strategies and science.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/author\/svallely\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024","description":"What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I've read","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024","og_description":"What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I've read","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/","og_site_name":"Mindfulness For Addressing Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and Grief","article_published_time":"2024-02-18T14:38:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":1200,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1630\/2024\/02\/E61-Motivation.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sarah Vallely","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sarah Vallely","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/","name":"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-02-18T14:38:52+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-18T14:38:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#\/schema\/person\/0f2bfdf617bde8a531f2a3aba76917a4"},"description":"What are you motivating yourself to do in 2024? And how do you see that working out for you? The opposite to motivation is procrastination.\u00a0 I've read","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/2024\/02\/the-secrets-to-motivation-you-need-in-2024\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Secrets to Motivation You Need in 2024"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/","name":"Mindfulness For Addressing Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and Grief","description":"Learn how mindfulness can reduce stress, address anxiety symptoms, heal past trauma and help you move through grief in a healthy way.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#\/schema\/person\/0f2bfdf617bde8a531f2a3aba76917a4","name":"Sarah Vallely","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db68c87e2224b0c5f30f61819d9b8b0d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db68c87e2224b0c5f30f61819d9b8b0d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Sarah Vallely"},"description":"I've been helping people reduce stress since 2001. I am the founder of TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center. TSD Mindfulness offers training and certification programs to therapists and life coaches for incorporating mindfulness into their approaches. I have been facilitating meditation workshops to a global audience for 20 years, certifying therapists, teachers, and healthcare workers to teach meditation and mindfulness. Candidates learn assessment, analysis, and facilitating over 60 tools created for client sessions. I also work with private clients who wish to address their stress, anxiety, trauma or grief. Additionally, I host a podcast called The Aware Mind. My co-host and I explore mindfulness teachings, strategies and science.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/author\/svallely\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mindfulnessforaddressingstress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}