help i just. can't find the motivation to do stuff. feeling intimidated by Doing™️. constantly on edge.
...i guess i could do laundry. that's easy enough. might get me going with other stuff too.
- she/they/it
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in reply to @Raake's post:
I have some major motivation problems and I don't have any super great answers, but the one thing that I do that can help is, if you can manage it, I would suggest breaking tasks up into smaller pieces and focusing on just completing them one part at a time without promising yourself that you'll complete the whole task. Then you move on to the next part and so on for as long as your motivation holds out.
Something about only having responsibility for finishing a smaller piece of a larger act makes it easier, and then as you move on to the next piece and so on, it slowly gets easier as the size of the whole task is shrinking. Good luck 👍
that is something i try to do as well, though it doesn't work with everything.
for example, i gotta get groceries; i could just pop to the corner store, but the mall's got other stuff i'd like - but i'd first need to drive to the mall; i can't really do just one or the other (and i'd rather not have to make several trips there) :v
if i went to the mall (which i feel like i should), i'm thinking i may need to get gas as well - and if i do that i might want to have my car washed too. (i don't have to get gas; i know i'm running low - although not urgently so - but i'd like to not have to worry about it during the week... but the uncertainty is hella intimidating the even though it really isn't hard to find out >.> )
i'm trying to plan my route on paper now, but there's just a lot of variables in the process and i feel like it's making it hard to think... i also already made a shopping list yesterday, but i still feel like i'm missing something - just can't think what :<
update: didn't want to keep stressing over little things, so i went to the mall and got gas. the wash can wait though.