How do you stay motivated as the end of the year approaches? Productivity coach Judy Dang guides you through how motivation changes as you work through the year, and how to finish strong.

Think of the old-fashioned punch card from coffee shop. You need 10 punches for a free coffee. At the beginning, you’re focused on making progress – just getting the first punch, then one more, and one more to build up momentum. Your focused on the punches you have, not the empty punches you have left. As the end approaches, your motivation reverses to how many punches are left.

It’s a countdown and a drive to complete the card. Your work motivation is very similar. At the end of the year, try thinking about the time you have left and what you can accomplish within that time. What are one or two more punches you make on the year?

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Judy Dang is a trusted expert to forward-thinking female solopreneurs who know what they want to achieve in their businesses and want the master plan and support to get there. She’s the inventor of the Goal Getter Formula. Prior to her work in…

Judy Dang is a trusted expert to forward-thinking female solopreneurs who know what they want to achieve in their businesses and want the master plan and support to get there. She’s the inventor of the Goal Getter Formula. Prior to her work in the solopreneur productivity space, Judy spent over 18 years at UCSF and Bay Area nonprofits in project management and administration. She’s a dynamic speaker who dazzles audiences large and small with her unique take on productivity. In 2020 she appeared in Forbes twice. She’s a world traveler and sampler who wants to eat her way through Spain. Judy founded Avid At Work in 2016 to help others achieve more by working less.