Any advice helping to get started with work which I don't really want to do?

Don't let an early opportunity, especially when you're partially motivated, pass - because the motivation might never come again, and then you'll be forced to plow through it begrudgingly.

 

Hi. I have been in a similar situation.

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One idea, of which I have become increasingly convinced, is that the Law of Attraction works for every conceivable thing.

So, if you have the following thought: "I would like to be able to do this work"; then, by necessity, you will gradually come closer to the realization of that state.

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I used to be a chronic procrastinator; yet, after beginning to read books on personal development, I eventually learned how to get the result that I visualized myself wanting, despite the fact that, at the time, the result was not actualized.

Personally, I have a religious foundation for this; but, throughout my studies, I have come to the realization that the Law holds for everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs.

 

Don't smoke weed!
Don't play with urself!
Just do it!!!

 

If you don't want to do it you probably won't do it. I enjoy doing maths most of the time because by solving complex problems it makes me smarter and faster at decision making, it literally builds connections in your brain to strengthen your problem solving skills, I don't see it as something I don't want to do, I see it as a way of becoming smarter. I don't just study maths to get a high grade, I study it to understand how to answer every question. Don't study for grades, study for mastery.

Just remember, the better you get at something, the more enjoyable it becomes.

If you're doing a physics degree I'm guessing you're pretty smart already. Just get a high grade in the physics degree so you can get a lucrative job in the future, surely that would motivate you.

 

Wow! I have seen few people who take studies as their interest and not as a compulsion, do them for performing better in their overall life rather than just earning marks or a living.