Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

Do Hard Things: Motivation for Tedious Tasks

28 May 2025 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue (YouTube) by Larry Weidel about the difficulty of motivating oneself to do boring, tedious tasks that are nevertheless necessary for progress. The speaker contrasts easy-to-start fun activities with the challenge of starting and completing tedious work, arguing that the ability to do those tasks quickly enables forward progress in life.

None of us have problems getting ourselves to do fun things. Interesting. I want to check that out. Want to go there, want to meet that person, you know, spend some time. But the big difference is, how do you get yourself to do the boring, tiresome, tedious. Just stuff that just has to be done. But, you know, once it gets done, you're gonna move ahead. And. And it's how you can get yourself to do those things that allows you to get ahead in life, because the quicker you can do them, the better.