Motivation is tough when you’re working on a project that you loathe. It’s a typical scenario, you’re “Johnny DoGood” and offer up your help when your manager or co-worker asks you for it. Soon you realize that you’ve been duped into the worst project you can think of being a part of and you’re staring at your screen saying, “What have I done?” It’s ok. We’ll get through it.

Environment. Do you like it dim? Light? Find what works best for your productivity. Is your chair killing you? Steal the interns. Kill the clutter on your desk, having a clean work space will make you feel that this project is already on its way to finishing itself.

Distractions. Find a way to drown out other distractions, whether it’s your RSS feeds, Email, or co-workers blathering on to people about office gossip, put on some ear covering headphones, close your browser and treat lunch time as your catch up time.

Change. Getting sick of the logic you’ve been staring at for the last hour? Change it up. Work on something else. Having little projects around to pick up can be exactly what you need to get going again. A change of pace is great.

Lastly, break it up. Figure out what needs to be done and the smallest chunks that you can break it out into. Then start slaying that to-do list. If you hate paper…try out Ta-Da Lists. They’re a great way to keep track of what you need to get done.

How do you keep motivated? Share your tips and tricks to getting your work done in the comments.