It’s hard to stay motivated when you are feeling bored. Making even minor changes in your regular routines can help spice things up and boost motivation. Try taking a new route to work, eating something different for lunch, or rearranging or redecorating your workspace. You can't always choose your situation, but you can choose the people you surround yourself with. People who are encouraging and positive will naturally stimulate your motivation. In a similar way, discouragement and negativity can hurt your motivation.  If you have a friend who's a bit of a stick in the mud or a pessimist, you may want to limit your time around that person while you need to be motivated. Some people are more sensitive to the emotions of others. If you find that your emotions are easily affected by the feelings of others, you might take on negative emotional energy easily and need to avoid it. An accountability partner is someone you trust to help you keep a commitment. This can be a friend, a family member, a teacher, a coach, or anyone that you're comfortable sharing your goal(s) with. Have your accountability partner regularly check in on your progress and you should notice an increase in motivation.  Try to be regular in your check-ins with your accountability partner. Routine, like reviewing your progress weekly with your partner, will help you consistently remember to check in. You can create an accountability network by taking time to share your goals with your friends and family. You'll be more motivated to work hard and make progress if you know someone might ask about your goal later. If you spend too much time and energy focusing on completing a task or trying to achieve a goal, you will start to feel burnt out. Taking breaks actually increases productivity and helps you feel more motivated. Take short breaks while you work and go for a quick walk, stretch your legs, eat a snack, or read a little bit. Make sure you have a little time set aside every day for fun, relaxation, and self-care.
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One-sentence summary -- Change your routines to fight boredom. Cultivate a supportive environment. Find an accountability partner. Take breaks.

Q: To make your salt dough ornaments, you will need one cup of plain flour, half a cup of salt and half a cup of water. You will also need Christmas themed cookie cutters (stars, Christmas trees, angels, wreaths, etc.) a cookie sheet, a rolling pin, some toothpicks, ribbon, and acrylic paints and glitter glue for decorating. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt and water and stir until it forms a dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth. If the dough is too sticky, add a little more flour -- though not too much, as this will cause the dough to crack. With a floured rolling pin, roll out the dough until it is about 1⁄4 inch (0.6 cm) in thickness. Use your Christmas themed cookie cutters to cut out shapes in the dough. Place each shape on a floured surface as you cut out the rest of the dough. Before you bake your ornaments, you will need to make a little hole at the top of each where you can thread a ribbon to hang the ornament from your tree. Use a toothpick to make punch a hole near the top of each ornament, rotating the toothpick a little to make the hole wide enough for your ribbon to fit through. Place your salt dough ornaments on a floured cookie sheet and place on the middle shelf of an oven preheated to 250 °F (121 °C). Bake for two hours, then remove from the oven, place on a wire rack and allow to cool completely. Once the salt dough ornament have cooled, you can decorate them using the acrylic paints and glitter glue. Depending on personal preference, you can use a small paint brush to paint on intricate details, or you can simply cover the decoration in one block color. You can also glue on sequins, button and crystals for extra decoration. Cut a length of ribbon - preferably in red, green or white - and thread it through the hole at the top of the ornament. Secure with a knot and hang from the tree. If you like, you can write the date on the back of the ornament to remember when you made it!
A: Gather the ingredients and equipment. Make the salt dough. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Make holes in each ornament for hanging. Bake the ornaments. Decorate. Thread the ribbon.

Article: Many cities and towns now have recycling drop-off points or even curbside municipal recycling collection. However, every community is different, so visit your local government’s website to find out what facilities and options are available in your area. Most communities will at least have 1 or more recycling facilities, although these facilities may only accept certain types of plastic. If your community offers curbside pickup, you can leave your plastics in a recycling bin alongside your garbage bin on garbage day. In areas that don't have curbside pickup, there are often large recycling dumpsters around town, usually at public places like schools, churches, or municipal buildings. Make sure you’re adhering to your local government’s guidelines when dropping off your recyclables. Otherwise, this may constitute littering. Search online or call your local officials to find recycling centers in your area. Be sure to ask if there are any limits on what types of plastic you can bring to the center to be recycled.  For example, some recycling centers may not be able to accept plastic bags. However, you can often take these to the grocery store to be recycled. Some recycling facilities will pay a couple of cents per item that you drop off. You can make a few extra bucks by collecting recycling from your friends and neighbors and bringing it in. Some recycling centers will do the sorting and cleaning for you, so you can just dump cans, plastics and papers all together. With others, you will need to separate different materials beforehand and drop them off into select containers when you take them to the facility.  If your facility requires it, separate paper and cardboard, plastics, glass, and cans. This can be annoying, but like any household chore, it gets easier if you make a weekly habit of it. Note that you may be required to clean out your plastic and remove the labels as well.
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Find out about the specifics of your community’s recycling program. Leave your recycling at a drop-off point to have someone pick it up. Take your plastics to a local recycling center if there’s no pickup option. Contact the recycling facility and ask if you need to sort your plastic.