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FWIW, you're already motivated - your post is evidence enough of that. Keep asking yourself why you feel like you want to do something and see where that leads.
by reilly3000 5y ago
FWIW, you're already motivated - your post is evidence enough of that. Keep asking yourself why you feel like you want to do something and see where that leads.
Perhaps that exercise reveals some deep set intention. Congratulations, that is yours to nurture and grow. Put a definition of a milestone that will move you towards satisfying that intention. Write it down and say it out loud. Repeat that daily, indefinitely. Identify the difference in state between where you are today and your desired outcome. Break the journey down into discrete action steps, then do a step forward. As you go forward, take inventory of all of the actions you've taken so far and admire your growing wealth of progress. Don't interrogate your intention too often or judge it too harshly, if it came from a good place, it will lead you somewhere good.
Perhaps the exercise revealed nothing at all. There is nothing that you want, nothing pulling you any particular direction. Congratulations, you've arrived! You're free from striving and have achieved the pinnacle of human longing. Enjoy the level of contentment, leisure, and freedom that has been the aim of so many, for so long, and enjoy it well.
“Nothing to do is itself a great doing.”
― Ehsan Sehgal
“I sat in my backyard all afternoon and did nothing. Whenever I do nothing I feel I've accomplished a lot.”
― Marty Rubin
Perhaps you have nothing you want, but nothing doesn't satisfy you. Go help somebody who needs it. There is plenty to do, and helping people does quite a lot of good for you. Even if you got nothing out of it, at least someone did.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Hibernation and seasonality is perfectly mammalian. Spring is coming.