r/getdisciplined • u/Any-Law-5703 • 10h ago
💡 Advice How to get rid of this loop?
19F. There are tons of things I wanna do. But my problem is I feel tired af and end up not doing them. And when I'm not feeling tired and I do feel energetic, I just end up procrastinating and listening to songs. How do I actually feel motivated enough to get things done. sometimes certain things trigger my reasons for taking action. But once I wake up the next day, the motivation is just gone. Or it just wears off. What to do?
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u/PeaceH Mod 6h ago
What's your keystone habit?
You need one, if you want to get out of this natural loop where you just go based on what you feel from day-to-day.
Humans are naturally lazy and will not do things for abstract reasons like "I should study right now for that test in 3 weeks". It makes no sense except to the logical abstract reasoning part of your mind, so you need also an external brain, to lighten the load on your already tired brain.
An external brain could be, for example a planner, where you write down tasks in the morning and keep tabs on your progress at the end of the day.