Lack of motivation through the boring center

eg1 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 4:24 pm

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Is that this one thing others have gone by way of?
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How did deal with it?
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Any assets/web sites/books you might suggest which may assist me snap out of this funk?

To op:
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Too many occasions to depend, and at a extreme “existential disaster” degree every time.
Why?
Many have advised me that I am self pushed self directed AAAA motivated chief who was thrilled with working 24/7/365 to develop and run my companies. However, that tempo and intense focus typically led to durations of “burnout” on all ranges, together with well being.
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How did I deal with it?
To my benefit. Play offense, not protection in life.
I persevered by way of like a Navy Seal, (improvise, adapt, overcome) which gave me a lift to larger ranges of feat and private progress.
Now retired, do I nonetheless expertise these phases. After all. (A “cheetah” is at all times a “cheetah, regardless that it not runs 70 mph.)
Is that path for everybody? No.

My mentors, older and profitable (rags to riches), advised me that these durations are like how the metal for a conventional Japanese Samurai Sword is heated and folded and hammered into form, then heated and folded and formed once more. This repeats 100’s of occasions and ends in excessive energy and resilience and suppleness that’s unbreakable. For these which are keen and devoted to this course of life coaching, metaphorically, then the private inside rewards are nice and also will replicate into the lives of these round us.

I used to be additionally taught that we undergo phases of profession and work and so forth the place we repeat 3 ranges of “feeling” and “motivation” and “effort”.
1 Compelled to do, or hate to do (something): we’re junk at one thing new, or not challenged, complacent, dis glad, and many others, ….but when we persevere and undergo a catharsis…then>>>
2 Bought to do (something): we do all the things or one thing reluctantly, our inside scrutiny is brutal and supressing…but when we persevere and undergo that existential disaster ( and slap ourselves foolish to “get up”…then>>>>
3 Need to do / desirous to do / comfortable to do (something) However, ultimately it will grow to be routine and boring and complacency units in once more, so, again to #1.
See?

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Actionably:
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Learn:
Out there Amazon.com softcover:
“On the Shortness of Life”: by Seneca
“The Which means of Life” by Viktor Frankl
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Take a conventional Japanese Tai Chi, or Aikido, or Shotokan JKA Karate class usually. It’s one thing you do for your self, by your self, to your “self”.
Not Westernized meditation or variations of such, until finished concurrently (no sitting and considering). Why? As a result of the previous disciplines have interaction all of you, thoughts, physique (bodily motion) and inside spirit. In your state of “funk” as you set it, sweating is an efficient factor. (foolish).
dis laimer: my perspective is barely as a Roshi/Shihan.

Make a routine to stroll out your entrance door and go jogging for 1 hour. half-hour out and half-hour again. Jog/Stroll at first till you get in situation. Use earpods or headphones to take heed to your favourite music. Immerse your self within the effort till you are uninterested in excited about all the things you wrote about above. It is like taking an emotional/psychological bathtub. Preserve a watch out for visitors and automobiles. Or drive to someplace like a big park or College monitor space that’s not used and jog there. Or round a lake, and many others.

Studying books and seminars and podcasts, and many others, shouldn’t be a “coaching self-discipline” per se on the degree of full physique,thoughts,spirit engagement.
(like passive vs energetic investing?)
Attempt it. THings for your self, by your self, to your “self”. Your personal private “dojo” coaching”. (with out all of the connotations of “dojo and martial arts, and many others).
Not a passion. Not a social pastime. Not sports activities, per se. However, solo disciplines.
Get out of the home and out of the chair.

“osu”
j