Self-Motivation

[thesummerqueen]

Ah. Well, what made you ask the question in the first place, may I ask? Did someone tell you that you should spend more time doing things?

[Edwardo Piet]

Yes, my therapist suggested I be more active and sometimes I succeed at doing so but other times I slip into doing nothing again. And I'm trying to find out HOW I can increase my activity rather than just leaving it to chance and having to be 'in the mood'.

[thesummerqueen]

Then you have to create a mood. If your therapist says "this is for your health" you have to decide if your health is motivation enough to do things.

[Edwardo Piet]

And what tends to happen is sometimes I bother and other times I don't. I'm trying to bother more but sometimes I just don't.

[thesummerqueen]

That doesn't make you much different from everyone else in this world, my dear. We often put aside health because there are other things more pressing, which may or may not be as important.

[Edwardo Piet]

Well, I guess all I can do is hope that I don't slip back into doing nothing and get stuck for long periods of time like that... again.

[Violet]

Any ideas on how to motivate yourself into being more active?

Find love, and you will soon be *very* active

Do things you're passionate about. Something for me is making a costume and going somewhere in it (or when I make something super sexy like last night... doing something about it).

[thesummerqueen]

Part of what I was saying about just getting up and doing it is because of that.

You know you need to get out more. But something, important or not, keeps you from doing it. In the case of the unimportant things, you have to force yourself to say that your health is more important than whatever you're doing and go outside.

[Violet]

Well, I guess all I can do is hope that I don't slip back into doing nothing and get stuck for long periods of time like that... again.

Hey look...

I can spend so much agonizing time deciding what song I want to listen to, or book I want to read, or if I want to go outside or not...

And it's often a pointless discussion. Just do. Think about it while you're doing it, but don't have an illusion in your mind that there is a choice between doing nothing and DOING SOMETHING.

So stop complaining and do something Doesn't matter what it is... just get to it. Maybe you have a job and you don't feel like doing it today: doesn't matter, get on that uniform, get on the job, and make the best of it.

Even if things seem horrible and you don't even want to get up: there is nothing to be gained from laying around awake all day long mulling over all the things that make you sad...

SO GET TO IT, AND DO IT, AND FIND SOMETHING TO ENJOY ABOUT IT

[Edwardo Piet]

And I guess that's the problem, things often don't feel worth it.