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 No.864

I have somewhat recently started lifting again, and my diet has improved, but I still constantly feel unmotivated to do anything. I even go days without showering or getting over important things done until as late as possible, and generally just spend days sitting in front of my computer with no drive to do much else.

Do any of you have any motivation building tips which you have found to help with this?

 No.868

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>>864
Motivation won't get you out of this. Well you can try, but more than likely your motivation will run out like it always does and you will be left feeling like you do now, then you will either find some discipline and keep going, or crash and burn.

My advice for you would be to aim for creating habits. By this I mean start small, small enough that you will 100% do it and big enough that it's actually worth doing, so find the right balance. For example if you wanted to do push ups, starting on 100 a day may be too high and wouldn't guarantee that you will do it, while only 10 is way too small. The balance in this situation would be 50, you'll 100% do it because it's manageable and it's actually worth it.

Next you need to find a trigger, something that will initiate your new habit and basically remind you of it. Good triggers are usually established habits, like dinner, breakfast, lunch, toilet break, after checking your social media accounts or any other site you regularly check etc. So using the push up example, lets say the trigger in this case would be the toilet break. So every time you'd go to the toilet you'd do 10 push ups.

With the above, you start small but gradually increase until eventually you reach your desired goal, which in my case was managing to do 6 hours and 30 minutes of study a day. So initially you'd start with 50 push ups a day, and increase by 10 every second day. So after a few weeks you'd be doing hundreds and it won't require a lot of motivation to do, why? Because it's an established habit at this point.

I wouldn't apply the above to gym, but more to the other habits you desperately you need to create. Plant a lot of seeds now and reap the rewards weeks/months from now.

Here's a video that explains the above better than I can

 No.869

This is more relevant to your gym. /fit/ repost.

What program are you doing OP and what is your goal?

Videos:
http://youtu.be/b-a1jXgAsQI [Embed]
http://youtu.be/3Ao7rZ8-HWo [Embed]

Reading material:

> http://pastebin.com/x7BbYimv

More reading material needs to be added

> arcitea.com/

The Way of The Seal
The Code of the Warrior - Rick Fields
The Story of Civilization - Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy - WIll Durant
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein 1959 (actually has a lot of really powerful character building stuff in there)
Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab
Immediate Action - ^
Seven Troop - ^

>Mentally Tough - James E. Loehr & Peter J. McLaughlin

>Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
>The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
>The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

That Art of Manliness blog was originally included in this OP, but the only people that read it are neckbeards that fetishize things that happened 100 years ago so I took it out. The pastebin for this post is http://pastebin.com/3n1RuYBL

 No.882

>>864
>but I still constantly feel unmotivated to do anything. I even go days without showering or getting over important things done until as late as possible, and generally just spend days sitting in front of my computer with no drive to do much else.

Sounds like you're depressed. So I guess antidepressants. Or do stuff that is proven to combat depression.

 No.883

>>864
You may have Seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Basically lack of sunlight just kills your willpower.

Get a bluelight/SAD light to use in the morning, and try to get outside on sunny days.

Good luck.

 No.886

>>883
This. I find my anxiety and laziness shoot up during Winter, whereas in Summer I'm happy and motivated as fuck.

 No.891

>>882
>>883
>>886
I live in England, there are no sunny days. lel

I do need to get out more, though. I used to go for walks which were always nice. Especially since I live in the countryside.

I can carry on lifting on the side.

>>868
>>869
I will look into these books as well. I also like to try and read as much as possible.


Thanks for the advice everyone.

 No.892

>>891
I live in England too, though in the South where we sometimes do get sun. I think it's mainly the greenery that benefits me to be honest.

 No.955

vitamin D supplements take care of the no sun depression



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