Juiced On Writing

To remain motivated as a writer, I also often find myself turning down the Organisation and Self-Motivation path. I LIKE organisation, as a general theory. Some of my favourite bloggers and ebooks out there deal with the whole productivity thing. As a fultime worker, I was very organised – it was one of my seats of power, unchallenged by anyone coming to one of my meetings, or calling for information quickly.

Being a home-based writer turned things around on me, however. Without the legitimacy of having a boss breathing down my neck (perhaps it was my cleavage?) or staff being dependent on my own work output, then things got a little less functional. I am, perhaps, my own worst boss, or motivator. But now I have a handy little free tool to use as my lifestyle and writing boss.

For years we have all heard about the holy goodness that is found in an “affirmation”. Some productivity systems use these, and goals, and life goals, and small goals, large goals, life roles, systems, routines, and even sticky notes stuck up onto our morning mirrors (who ever asked me – I tend not to look into mirrors myself),

Affirmations always seemed a good idea – in theory at least – to me. But when following through, I often found that using them lasted only a day. Sticky notes fell off my monitor, not to be seen for several days until suddenly appearing posted onto the inundating backside of my dog. Other family members wouldn’t share the same religious fervour I did about prompting myself with an affirmation which I had also generously provided publicly for all of them also. Or if I hid them away, I found ways to avoid the general hiding place (ie. the whole room or house) for hours on end. My id, or ego, or whichever part of me which had initially nodded at my great affirmation idea, quickly seemed to not want the affirmation goodness at all.

Today I discovered the free Motivator software. This is a download for PC windows users, and once installed and registered (input your email address used to get the link), the motivator puts a little icon into your windows system bar. You can configure the text which appears in it, and the quantity of popups which appears on an hourly basis. Fonts and background images are configurable also.

To the left you will see a screenshot of some sample messages. I’ve input some writing ones specific to my current needs. I’ve left in the generic messages (“Smile!”) which come with the install. I would suggest that confining myself to perhaps four or five good affirmations will be the way to go in the future.

Now, I’ve set the motivator to popup an affirmation for me twice an hour, and I can’t avoid them. They keep me on track of what my real objectives are. Plus they remind me to be happy with the life I currently have.

They say that new habits take 20 days to form. With the aid of the free motivator software, I should be able to prove that, without irritating my family, or dog.

The Motivator software is free from the WCCL network, which also offers free giveaways on writing stuff, and software.

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