What Motivates You?

[trying2movefwd]

To get up everyday and to live in our normal everyday world without a "normal" mind, How do you do it? What motivates you to get up everyday? Mine is my kids. That's it right now.

 

[Crow]

My cats. And photography. More and more I am seeing this healing journey as an adventure and that's helping. I put out a bird bath and feeder so I need to tend to those. And last weekend I bought house plants for the first time. So that's another thing I need to keep doing stuff for it to live.

 

[Friday]

Knowing where not getting up takes me.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Art, music. Although I'm quite grateful just to exist right now, thankful for each new day in spite of everything. :)

 

[Sideways]

Right now, today? I'm pretty square with @FridayJones . I recognise that my depression is gaining ground, and I know where that leads. So today, like yesterday and the day before that and probably again tomorrow, I'm getting out of bed and out into the world not to enjoy myself, more just in a desperate bid to stop things getting worse.

 

[Gadgie]

I think when you know that it's depression kicking in, it makes it easier to cope with. As before, when I never knew what what was happening it was more frustrating as you never knew what the hell was happening?

I found out quite a lot about things like that, after I started coming into this site, that along with all the help and support that I've had, makes a lot of things make sense to me now.

 

[illusionist]

The same as Friday.......I've learned with years of experience, that if I don't motivate myself there is only one place I'm heading........the deep, dark pit.

 

[EveHarrington]

Hope/tomorrow.

Hard to live for today sometimes; tomorrow is always full of potential even when today is not.

 

[Imagine_11]

My son is my motivator and grounding factor for me too. I have a lot of very exciting goals and plans but I wouldn't even bother trying to achieve them without my son. He gives me a reason to make myself a priority too because you can't pour from an empty cup and I need to be at my best to support him =)

 

[Ronin]

Knowing the time's short and I could waste it all on my past bullshit.

What's done is done, I can't fix it by lingering in it.