Get Up and Do Something

You’re working through the process of doing something good, something beneficial and potentially life-changing. Now, it’s hard to get up and do something. When you started, you had all the motivation necessary to see you through. Suddenly you find your motivation fading away and you start second-guessing and wondering if you’re doing the right thing or wasting your time?

You know if you bail out now, your life will be just the same as it was before. This will have been just another thing that you started at a time when you thought you could have a better life but for whatever reason, you just couldn’t do it.

You try to remind yourself that you life is not too bad and there are certainly a lot of people who are far worse off than you.

You’ve found yourself at a crossroad wondering which way to go. Do you find ways to push through the process, or do you find a way to graciously bow out?

The first thing to do is to have an honest talk with your inner and higher self to discover if you might be dealing with some form of depression. Depression affects more of us today, especially in America, because our food and water is contaminated with material that promotes depression. Therefore, we all, most of us who eat food and drink water that is readily available to us, are potentially moving in and out of depressive states at any time.

This problem is too difficult to fix at the time you are feeling like your motivation for seeking a better life is waning.

So, what can you do?

Let’s take a look at your sleep patterns. Are you finding that you require more than 8 hours of sleep? Is it hard to wake up or even get out of bed in the morning? Are you perfectly content, just lounging around in your pajamas, reclining, or laying on the couch all day? Do you find yourself taking naps throughout the day?

If so, these are pretty good indicators that you are dealing with issues related to depression, and if you don’t find a way to interrupt this pattern of behavior, you may find yourself living out the rest of your days with a steadily decreasing desire to pursue a better life for yourself.

The best thing you can do is to get out of bed, take a shower, get dressed, make the bed, eat breakfast, and do something. Make commitments to yourself or someone else to do anything where you might have to present yourself in an awakened and alert state of being.

Do a video call with someone. Create a morning routine, maybe start your own personal version of “Good Morning America” and do a video stream. Who cares if anyone watches it, and someone is likely to see it, but there you are, awake and engaged.

If this sounds impossible for you, just do it or something else, and feel free to take a 20-minute power nap afterwards. Set the alarm. When it goes off, think about doing something that will help to increase your life. Some small step.

Small steps toward creating a better life for yourself are cumulative, that is to say, one thing builds upon the other slowly, and even though you may not see the results when you’ve taken a step, after a while, you can look back and see how far you’ve moved from where you were in your life, and no doubt you are closer to a better life. If you don’t stop or turnaround and run back, you will keep getting closer to what you want.

And it all starts with getting out of bed, taking a shower, getting dressed, making the bed, eating breakfast, and doing something.

This will help to elevate your body’s intrinsic anti-depression chemistry and get your day going in the right direction.

Remembering not to beat yourself up too much when you’re not feeling 100%. The key is to keep moving and do something, even if it’s not much, but it moves you closer to your goal.

Maybe your intention was to read a chapter of that book, and you only made it through one page. No problem. Mark where you left off. Maybe you will get a chance to read more later, maybe not, but recognize that you are one page closer to where you want to be.

And as you continue to do this, it will get easier.