How to Motivate Yourself to Do What’s Most Important
17mIntermediate2025-09-02
Authors

Dorie Clark
Professor of Business Administration and Published Author
Course details
You know you should be doing what's most important, yet oftentimes you don't. No more. Instructor Dorie Clark helps you to understand what's going on and fight back so you can accomplish what you want and need to do. Dorie helps you get in touch with why you want to accomplish something and what’s behind your procrastination. She teaches strategies to reframe your thinking, so that tasks you don’t want to do feel more manageable. She shows ways you can work up enough momentum to break out of your rut. Dorie emphasizes the importance of mapping out your time and how you can allocate it in advance. She covers how to enlist others’ support and how to take that difficult first step. There are multiple smart strategies to get motivated, and Dorie helps you to find the one that works best for you. She concludes with tips on preventing burnout.
Skills covered
Time ManagementPersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Struggling with motivation
1. Embracing the Motivation Mindset
- 02 - Get in touch with your why
- 03 - Understanding your obstacles
- 04 - Reframing the challenge
- 05 - Getting unstuck
2. Creating the Structure to Succeed
- 06 - Plan your time
- 07 - Enlisting others' support
- 08 - Taking the first step
3. Making Your Success Sustainable
- 09 - Strategies to accomplish more
- 10 - Build successful habits
- 11 - Preventing burnout
Conclusion
- 12 - Maintaining motivation