Life balance and having purpose are key to everything. I use an acronum "pvsgeer" for purpose/vision/strategy/goals/empowerment/execution/review/revise/report/r

Life balance and having purpose are key to everything. I use an acronum "pvsgeer" for purpose/vision/strategy/goals/empowerment/execution/review/revise/report/repeat (or a subset of that, depending), to help keep myself on track and know why I am doing things. I don't recommend going without healthy amounts of sleep or pushing oneself beyond healthy capacity. Yes, we grow by stretching and pushing, that's not quite what I mean. I have CFS now and one of my top few ideas as to the cause was pushing too hard for years without enough sleep (seems like many famous people got less sleep, so I was determined; but the cause of CFS is really still unknown). If motivation is really the issue, there are other HN threads with that in their title. (at least on duckduckgo one can do a title search for a site, I believe.) And sometimes ... I have had to learn the hard rule that we have to be patient, we just can't do all that we want to do in the timeframe we want (hence the prioritization by purpose etc, per above). But I believe life does not end at death and we can continue to learn, grow, and progress, which helps tremendously for me to not worry about the things I can't do right now. All the best to you!