What do you do when you feel demotivated?

Do you have a routine that helps you regain your motivation?
Do you cry, sleep, eat?
Do you feel like giving up?

I don’t really have a routine or a cure for lack of motivation. Sometimes it’s circumstantial; sometimes it depends on the time of the day or how much energy I have.

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Demotivated to do what? Usually i just ignore the feeling and force myself to do what im feeling demotivated abt

It depends. If I don’t have motivation to study I would still do it because I have to, but if I’m not motivated to do something else I just wouldn’t do it. I learned to listen to my body and don’t force myself to do something I don’t want to do at that moment!

Like when you don’t feel motivated to work on a personal project like art, writing, etc… or even to work on daily tasks that need to be done like homework or chores.

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Just trying my best to revive this thread. :joy:

Not really, but I tend to take a break to clear my head then I’ll continue be motivated.

No

Always, when I feel defeated.

What is a good way to motivate others?

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Whenever I feel demotivated, I take a step back and try something else. Depending on what I’m working on, sometimes I go on a run or finish RP posts etc. It’s important for me to give myself breaks because typically when I work too long on the same thing, I become drained and thus demotivated.

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…just sleep because yes.

But in seriousness, I just be numb when I’m demotivated and shut myself out from the world completely until that numbness go away but then again I sleep because I don’t want stress to creep up on me every time.

I don’t really do anything :joy: on days where I have no motivation it can be hard to do something as simple as pick up an object because I don’t want to move

I very possibly have adhd/add, which makes it impossible for me to hang onto something and concentrate.

Which means that if I don’t have the motivation to do homework… I’m not doing it. Until the very last minute using all of my willpower. It’s like my brain shuts off. Routines—don’t have them, can’t have them. Except for some things like sleep.

But even then like there are certain things my brain will focus on and prioritize while everything else falls apart. I should be starting my homework rn but I can’t, I get a headache if I start to do it. It’s really quite debilitating. :sweat:

Lmao the only thing that would help would be better medication…. Which I don’t have access to at the moment. Hahaha life sucks!

With writing it’s different cuz writing is my fun passion thing. If I’m demotivated sometimes I can get myself to do it, or I just won’t and will take a break and come back when I have the energy. Pushing through doesn’t work and often creates bad plots.

There are just… so many things I could be doing or want to be doing but my mind won’t let me… or my body won’t let me. And then when others are like “eat well, get good sleep, etc” those things that other people can control, I can’t.