| Jan. 15th, 2008 @ 02:57 pm Lollipops - Borrowed from a friend on Some Other Journal Service |
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Remember lollipops? Like, when you were a kid and you had to go to the doctor, and when you were done, you got a lollipop? I think adults need more lollipops. Maybe not literal ones - I'm not sure a fake-grape sucker is enough motivation to do anything any more - but figurative ones. Little things that make having to do lousy things a little more worth it.
This train of thought was inspired by a friend of mine, who is having trouble motivating herself to clean her apartment. She, like many of us, is overwhelmed by the level of mess, to the point where it's too depressing to even try and start.
She needs something to motivate her, I thought, so I offered to write her a drabble if she finished cleaning the kitchen. Tangible, external reward - beyond the inherent satisfaction of having a clean kitchen, of course, which might have been enough for the '50's housewife but is not sufficient for me. So I'm wondering - anybody else think a metaphorical lollipop would help them accomplish something? Anybody be willing to offer metaphorical lollipops? Nothing major - a drabble, song, poem, sketch, batch of cyber-cookies, whatever. Just a small reward for enduring a lousy task. And it can really be anything - homework you really don't want to do, a paper you really don't want to write, a visit or a phone call you'd rather not make, cleaning your kitchen, reorganizing your garage, whatever.
Testing the waters with this, feel free to pass on the idea, maybe I'll put together a community or something. What does everybody think? |
