Coaching practices for I Notice I Only Really Put in the Effort When Someone's Watching or There's Credit in it and the Boring Fundamentals Slide I Want to Do the Work That Nobody Sees Just Because It's the Work

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• I notice I only really put in the effort when someone’s watching or there’s credit in it, and the boring fundamentals slide
• I only do the thing when I feel inspired, and on the flat, uninspired days I let myself off
• I keep choosing projects based on what I think will impress people or do well, and then I stall out halfway through because deep down they never actually moved me
• When something goes well I tend to quietly absorb the credit or just say "great team effort," and I never actually name who did what
• On paper nothing’s wrong

Practices that may help

1. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
   Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
2. Show up daily — especially on uninspired days
   Consistency beats quality in the early stages; showing up is the non-negotiable.
   The Slight Edge: Jeff Olson’s Philosophy of Consistent Small Actions
3. Follow genuine interest, not strategic interest
   Pursue the thing that genuinely excites you — even if you cannot explain why or see how it fits.
   The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making
4. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
5. Monitor intrinsic interest over time
   Overjustification is a slow erosion — check whether you still find the work interesting, not just whether you’re doing it.
   The Overjustification Effect: When Rewards Kill Motivation
6. Connect the work to a purpose beyond yourself
   Tie effort to something larger — the "why" that outlasts the reward.
   Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
7. Normalize the messy process, not just the polished result
   Let people see the iterations and dead ends behind a successful outcome.
   The Pratfall Effect, Made Practical
8. Re-engage boring tasks by finding a process goal
   Replace “finish this boring thing” with a craft goal that makes the process worth attending to.
   Mind Wandering and the Default Mode Network
9. Surface utility value by connecting a task to goals you already care about
   A task you find boring can become motivating when you see concretely how it serves a goal that matters to you.
   Expectancy-Value Theory: Why You Try (or Don’t)
10. Name and register small wins explicitly
    Small progress that goes unregistered does not fuel motivation — you have to notice it.
    The Progress Principle: Why Small Wins Fuel Motivation

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