Asklemmy

Man... I don't.

That's the neat part.

I don't

discipline beats motivation. make it just something you do, not something to be considered and decided.

you don't need a pep talk for every little thing.

Coffee, morning sunlight, rituals with my dog like treat time. More coffee. Gotta love coffee.

I've got young kids. Waking up early is the best time for me to be productive and enjoy solitude.

I don't experience motivation hardly ever, but I sure have plenty of obligations to keep me moving. It's a matter of forcing yourself to do the thing until you break apart and die as far as I've discerned.

Deadlines

Coffee.

By having long term goals. If you're working toward something bigger in life each day is just progress on that journey.

If you don't have any long term goals start thinking about where you want to be in 5 or 10y and make some. Then you can think about how to get there and start making short and medium term goals to help you along the way.

I actually remind myself this is the worst moment of the day. It gets better and better.

I wake up with rather dark, pessimistic thoughts. They tend to fade toward mid-day.

So, again, I say "this is the literal worst moment of the entire day" (Its very rarely not true)

Coffee. I mean, high quality Specialty Coffee. Grind the beans by yourself, feel that aroma, complete the ritual by sipping the black nectar of productivity. It will be the best moment of your entire day.

Shower helps wake me up. Also gives me an opportunity to sob a little in privacy.

I work 3rd shift, so I'm always motivated to go to bed in the morning.

Wake up 15 minutes before I have to leave.

Prescription stimulants

You craft and finish a plan before you walk up the mountain and then stop thinking about the mountain. You don't look up the mountain, just at your steps and the way right before you. The mountain wants you to worry, but if you worry, you loose. So don't look up the mountain and just walk, step by step.

Know that worrying about things like this is like trying to solve an algebra equasion by chewing bubble gum.

Going to bed early enough that your actually awake before your alarm really makes mornings easy. I didn't used to be a morning person but I kinda am now!

The next question does then become - how do I make myself go to bed at a sensible time?

i have a morning routine that mostly revolves around listening to a few regular news podcasts as i wake up, shower, and shave. listening to thee news distracts me from how tired i am.

then, obvs, coffee at work

It’s not so much the motivation, but the just doing it. Shia has a great video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

I put my alarm far enough away that I need to get up to turn it off. By then I'm already out of bed, which is otherwise the hardest part for me by far.

I don't, I just finally gained the willpower to get up and do shit even though I'm not motivated. Very often in life, you have to do shit you don't wanna do. This doesn't mean your life sucks and that you cannot find any joy in your day, this is simply a fact of life. Once you accept this and stop having feelings about it, it's 100% easier to go about your day. I don't think this is a modern day thing, either. I'm sure you could pick any time period in history and find a human that wasn't thrilled with the idea of getting up and doing XYZ thing that they had to do that day in order to survive.

How do you get motivated in the afternoon? I have maybe three, four hours of semi-effective brain function between waking up and what seems to be some form of power saving mode that lasts the rest of the day. If I've eaten food with a fork that day, doing things is a struggle. Send motivation tips for post-lunch humaning, please.

Motivation is a big word… I just get up at some point and follow my routine. Lying in bed for too long without sleeping feels like a waste of time to me.

Wake up about 15 minutes before I have to be out the door. Just enough time to go to the loo, brush my teeth and chuck some clothes on.

If I give myself more time than I need, I just get sidetracked by something and end up making myself late.

By taking my antidepressant pill

Rituals and setting myself up to enjoy the morning- super yummy overnight oats, skincare routine, pour over coffee or a visit to my favorite coffee shop, watching my favorite GTA RP streamer... After all that, my brain has released the entirety of its dopamine for the day, and I crawl back into bed until lunch/dinner 🥹

My morning starts at ~~12am~~12pm. God, it's so awesome to work in the tech industry. I'm just wired like that and always have been. Back in school I was not compatible with the system of getting up early and often missed the first two hours.

C+++

I like having a roof over my head and food on the table, therefore I need to work.

Panic, mostly.

Don't, but not starving to death is a good motivator! You can also remove barrier to entry to the thing you want to do. Remove one barrier at a time. Want to go on a trip? Save the money, then prep a suitcase, then prep the car, then you suddenly just go, no barriers left.

ephedrine

I had a counselor once tell me that "motivation typically comes from doing." I guess most people say "motivation" when they mean "inspiration"

So what does "getting motivated in the morning" mean to you? What does that look like?

To me It looks like a nightly routine of positive self-talk while visualizing myself getting up the next morning to carry out my planned agenda as I first close my eyes. ‐I have more success at getting out of bed when I have already established a firm idea of what I'm getting up for.

I don't close my curtains when I sleep, because that way, I can actually see the sunshine (or clouds) when I wake up. Bright stuff tends to make me attentive.

I wake up each day with an awful headache. I think there’s mold but I can’t prove it.

So what motivates me is: “today I can get a little closer to moving out of this shithole”