How do you establish Urgency when working on personal projects?

[YIDIRYIDIR]

This is one thing I still struggle with; I really would appreciate some help with this.
when you have a boss or client, the deadline is set for you and it makes it easy to move fast. but how can i establish the same when working on personal projects?  
any tips?

[Cred]

I don't. At all.

The more urgency I have, the less creative and productive I become

Edited yesterday at 07:22 PM by Cred

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@Cred i wish i could just do that, but can't build a business without urgency, at least for me. 

[bazera]

1 hour ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

This is one thing I still struggle with

What are keep struggling with exactly? You tend to procrastinate? You don't have a proper vision of a project? Or what?

[Cred]

3 hours ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

@Cred i wish i could just do that, but can't build a business without urgency, at least for me. 

I think this is fair. I'm in a theory building, brainstorming phase fight now and this is very different from implementation.

I have barely begun applying my model to business. I think it can lead to very radical conclusions in the field and solve a lot of conflicts.

[Hojo]

6 hours ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

@Cred without urgency

Could mean you arent really interested in it.

I think you have to want to do it.

Edited 17 hours ago by Hojo

[Joseph Maynor]

This seems like it would be easy but it's actually the most difficult problem in self-help.  The answer is you have to do work to develop the motivation to do clearly specified projects.  My method of doing this is building up inspiration to do a list of projects in a specified time.  But to make a long story short I try to build up a way to have fun while doing a list of tasks.  

[Cred]

13 hours ago, Hojo said:

Could mean you arent really interested in it.

I think you have to want to do it.

There is a very important distinction to be made between urgency and drive.

The former leads to stress while the letter is some kind of eustress.

I have never been more driven than right now. However, there is very fiew urgency and I try to avoid it.

Edited 3 hours ago by Cred

[Joshe]

The reason you can easily wake up at 4am to catch a flight but not to go for a run is because you don't perceive real consequences of not going for the run. Same with your boss. Not meeting your work obligations/deadlines has real, immediate consequences.

What seems to be highly driven people is usually just people avoiding consequences. Self-help tells you these people are operating on some kind of drive, grit, and determination. But really, those are downstream of them just avoiding pain. This goes for the grandiose egotist as well as the guy who quit his job to start his own business. Not doing the thing has severe consequences for both.

Trying to manufacture a meaning structure around the thing you want to do will not work. You have to see and feel the consequences and they have to be real. Consequence motivation doesn't need maintenance like narrative motivation. You don't have to remind yourself that it matters when the consequences are real.

The energy comes from keeping the inevitable consequences in mind.