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 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

Wake up 15 minutes before I have to leave.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Morning motivation routine? Oh, it’s a finely tuned process. First, I snort a casual 50mg of Adderall to wake up the brain cells. Then, I chug a can of monster, but not before I stir in a dash of crushed Euro Speed—gotta keep the heart rate interesting. Next, I sprinkle a 200mg crack rock into my morning coffee, because why not? And just before stepping out, I inject a solid 100mg of meth straight into the arm for that extra ‘let’s conquer the world’ vibe. All of this in under four minutes, and honestly, it’s not that bad. Life is beautiful… unless you eat 369 pills of Benadryl, then things get a bit weird.

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)

ephedrine

Coffee.

Deadlines

it’s a lie

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.