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Hey there.

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Well done for completing the last module.

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You're really getting along in this course.

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Now I want to share with you another one of my tips for getting yourself down to actually do the work

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and do the course, because we all know that life very often gets in the way of things, right?

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Like I come home and I'm so tired from work I just want to collapse on the sofa and watch Game of Thrones

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and maybe have a snack next to me and that's so tempting for every single one of us.

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But, you know, we also know that it takes consistent work, consistently applying yourself before you can

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actually learn a skill or master something, so there's like these two things that are always fighting with

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each other in my head.

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And one of the things that really helped me to be able to do more of the things that I want to do is

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to kind of like trick my brain, just to tell myself I'm going to sit myself down and I'm just going to

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do 20 minutes of study or work, whatever it is that is going to get me towards my goal.

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And after the 20 minutes I am a free woman, I can do whatever I want.

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I can binge watch Game of Thrones while eating a tub of ice cream,

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so be it.

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But, the point is, once you've actually sat down and you've gotten started, once you've done that 20 minutes,

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the momentum keeps you going.

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There's so much inertia. There's inertia getting started and there's inertia actually stopping, because

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if you're choosing to do this, then I bet that it’s actually kind of fun for you,

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right?

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Like once you're in it and once you're getting the code to do what you want it to do,

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there’s joy in that.

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And the most difficult part,

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so the most difficult part, is just getting yourself to sit down and get started.

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So try this trick next time when you feel like life is really overwhelming you and you're not getting

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any time to get into the course.

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Just sit down for 20 minutes in the evening or in the morning and just tell yourself,

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I'm only going to do 20 minutes. If you end up doing more than 20 minutes then great.

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But if you only do 20 minutes, that's still 20 minutes, right?

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So have a go at this trick, and let me know if it works for you as well as it works for me.