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How do I get motivated. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by minecraftivy@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I have insanely ambitious dreams. I have a business that everyone connection i have ever made has been hyping up. The business has been delayed quite a bit due to my laziness. I also have been wanting to learn how to produce music (i make up songs on piano everyday) on music software but have also been just unmotivated. Life sucks and I always want to keep pushing. I want to do ridiculously hard things to help. At one point boxing really helped me stay motivated in life but I later got injured. I once even tried to get a therapist scheduled and only ended up getting one session done. There was a point at when I played tennis i would have this insane drive to get up after school each day and practice. during that time, I always felt like i was on edge with an insane unstoppable drive and now I have lost it. Now I find it hard to do daily activities and I still haven't given up. I am currently trying to read atomic habits at the moment. I would also like to mention that a couple weeks ago my friend asked me to start a t-shirt business with him. I helped him an insane amount. just out of the blue i manage to spend 6-7 hours right after school to work on the company (I would get home at 10pm dude). I feel like I had accountability and that helped a lot. But now I have just lost motivation. Someone please help me.

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[–] JudgementFreeFranky@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Great question my brother. Some would say it's one of the greatest questions of all time, "how to get AND stay motivated".

Take this with a grain of salt but here are a few recipes I have found helpful, some you likely already do so perhaps this will just be some reminders to consider:

Maybe the most important: don't wait until you "feel" motivated, or in the mood. You just do it, regardless of how you feel. Any time you feel negative, mad, frustrated, that's nature's alarm telling you it's time to get going and doing something, ANYTHING.
The little things you have 100% control over: Make you bed every morning, don't scroll on your phone in bed in the morning or night, drink 8 glasses of water, eat better, don't eat after 6pm.
Write out some goals. Have the guts to write out what you want. Have even more guts to look at it every day.
Give yourself grace. You can't get to your destination over night but you can change directions over night. Chip away at these little things and acknowledge yourself for completing them to help mentally shift from "I should" to "I do".