How To Motivate Yourself?

[Gs172003]

My body has crashed on me, and it's been crashed for some time. On weekends I sleep all day....

The only thing I can get myself to do is hike and workout. Oh and work which is basically a workout. That's the.the only thing that calms my nerves is moving. It's also the only way I can sleep. Everything else falls by the wayside. Wish I could help.

I am getting better about showers and brushing my teeth

 

[lostforgottensoul]

You are very brave

Ah, I wouldnt say that but thank you!

Yeah, everything piled on me like a dog pile and it is still kicking my ass. One of these things is bad enough but all of them at once? Impossible. So it feels.

Im jolted awake MANY times a night now. About every hour or so, so im exhausted just simply because im not sleeping well, at all.

Its hard.

I am getting better about showers and brushing my teeth

I take a shower every morning that i work. Days off is another story. If im off for say a week i wont go longer than 2 days as i cant stand my funk at that point.

I brush my teeth every day, though they are all rotting so im not sure that matters anymore.

 

[Gs172003]

Ah, I wouldnt say that but thank you!

Yeah, everything piled on me like a dog pile and it is...

There for a while I was lucky to shower twice a week

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@missy meier, my dad only showers once a week (he's 75 and keeps a 40s mindset) and my step mom also doesnt shower often. Shes bad. Maybe once every few weeks. Blah! :wtf: Good thing I dont sleep with either one of them! Their funk would :dead: lol!

 

[Ka-9]

I don't know if this factors in, but I use workouts to try and condition myself for feeling bad or suffering. For example I took the horse for a run today to a little community hall.... then I do wind sprints, whatever to make myself feel absolute painfully shit. Same with ice climbing..... I try to get the panic or fear coming on to expose myself. Weights, get the hurt on, let a little rage go.

It's near the only motivation I can dig up, but I feel like I'm training to appreciate or endure the suffer, so that shitty days aren't all that bad. Not ideal motivators by any stretch, but it has been largely effective as an outlet of some sort.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Sounds very painful @Ka-9!

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Music helps me, but sometimes even that doesn't work, I just have to nag myself and say "come on, life's too short c j you lazy so and so!"

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@C j, i play music when im cleaning. I can try to play some motivating-like music and see if that helps.

What kind of music motivates you?

 

[Deleted member 29920]

I like anything upbeat, like.. Rudie can't fail by the Clash, Teenage dirtbag by Wheatus, the Middle by Jimmy eat world, Blink 182, Green Day, Weezer etc

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Green Day

GREEN DAY!! Take me back to middle school where I idolized Green Day! :inlove::giggle:

 

[Deleted member 29920]

:D:D:D:cool:

 

[Deleted member 541]

@lostforgottensoul Should you decide that you are going to hire someone to clean your house. DO NOT Hire a cleaning service. They charge 3 times as much as an independent person does. Around here they bring in a crew of 3-4 people and charge about $40 per hour per person. Which is ridiculous.

I had someone contact me to clean their house. I went and almost gagged. But I got through it and they asked me to come back again the next day. I did, and did a bit more. They hired me for every other week. And they turned out to be awesome people to work for. But their god-damn dog, keeps trying to bite me. LOL!!! She's fine for a month or two, then like today, I turned to walk out of the room and she bit my pants and growled. She did it twice. Little bitch!!!!!

I hope you can figure this out, because for me, it's more stressful when my apartment is messy/dusty.