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The original was posted on /r/lifeprotips by /u/KittenDust on 2025-03-24 08:14:32+00:00.

For example: I need to clean up my flat which has got messy and disgusting. But I am feeling like I might just play video games all afternoon instead. When I imagine cleaning, it just makes me feel sad and unmotivated and when I think about playing video games, I feel happy. Instead, I really concentrate on imagining how I will feel after the task is done. After several hours gaming I will probably feel the same as I do now except with added guilt for wasting my time and disgust at myself for still living in a hovel. But when I imagine how I will feel after I cleaned up, I will feel happier, have a sense of achievement, feel pride in my surroundings. I then imagine gaming in a clean flat and how much better that will be. This works for me, hopefully this will be helpful to someone else too.