This is an unsorted list of short statements or questions to help unstick stuck work. A lot of these ideas are designed to help make the work or it's output more rewarding or motivating, or reduce the friction cread by the work.
- Look for something small and repetitive, and eliminate or automate it.
- Find the most annoying part, and make it (slightly) less so.
- How can someone see their own progress?
- How does this connect to a higher purpose?
- What would you tell someone else facing this issue?
- What other skill can apply to this situation?
- What is the smallest thing you could actually do?
- How could people have more control?
- Enable people to see their own performance level.
- Where can you connect with another human?
- Create time to reflect on recent learnings.
- What is being said that doesn't need to be said?
- Just do it badly first.
- When will this end? Create an end date for it.
- What hurricane could be started/stopped by swatting a butterfly now?
- What draws your attention, & what should draw it?
- Don't start with what you want to do, start with the results you need.
- What is simple that should be complex, what is complex that should be simple?
- Find jargon and platitudes and eliminate them.
- Imagine what you don't know, then learn it.
- Take something unspoken, and verbalize it
- Treat something basic like it's the main show.