Can anyone help me?

Welcome to the club!

I used to have a guitar sitting around for years that I couldn't play if I wanted to. I dunno what it is, but I can't ever seem to muster up motivation myself. Lately I've been able to get myself riled up for a handful of weeks, but then the drive just completely dies away all over again. I dunno why, just not easily motivated I guess.

I wish I could help ya, but honestly I don't know why I do it myself

 

Depression and stagnation go hand in hand.

I used to have no motivation or interest in things that used to be fun for me when I was depressed.

 

Trust me, I know the feeling.

Best I can offer you is buckle down, make yourself do it. If you know there is some part of you in there that wants to learn, than you just have to force yourself into the habit and as you start getting better maybe the motivation will find its way to the surface. ^^

 

I'm in the same state pretty much. I keep telling myself I should and will do schoolwork along with preliminary reading for uni, and try new stuff or paint up the warhammer army that's been collecting dust on my shelf, but the hours pass and I find most days I haven't even done 20% of the stuff I think up in my head. It's very hard to pin down the cause(s).

You've probably already been told this multiple times and tried it, but maybe try structuring your time a little more (that's rich coming from me though!) and have more targets, e.g. writing targets for the next day the night before and putting them on a checklist.

Another idea that comes to my head is simply trying something new that's pretty easy to make progress in. Atm I'm trying to break the deadlock by exercising because that's something that's tangible and in which I can see results fairly quickly; there's a noticeable progression even in a short timeframe like 2-3 weeks. Maybe it's not the case with you, but sometimes I get frustrated that I'm not noticing any real advancement in the things I'm doing and so I get impatient with it and so eventually it ends up on the wayside. My thinking is, just start from the bottom with something you can do and improve in very easily, and noticing your improvement in that might galvanise you to make improvements in other things.

My thoughts for now, but you're definitely not the only one trying to work this out

 

Wait til you actually try it...

It's beyond insanely difficult, then it gets easier after a week or so....then it starts getting hard again. I'd tell ya what comes next but I wouldn't know I never got that far xD

 

Fair enough. I'm game ^^

Sadly the only thing I've got to report is I put the finishing touches this morning on a story someone asked to write. roughly 7,000 words. Not sure if that's good or bad, but it's all I've done

 

That's a good start. Do you have any self-teaching books? Dvds? or internet tutorials? Something to work with? ^^

 

Okiedokie, sounds good to me. I'll see if I can post my updates as well, and you never know, maybe banding together'll get us to do stuff!

So today I went on a 40-minute walk which was pleasant, I'm keeping up the exercise fairly well atm. This week I'll get reading some more as well.

 

That's good. I need to get back into the exercise habit...though first I should probably figure out exactly what sorta routine I need for myself XD

 

Yes yes. It will certainly help ^^

 

Set small, reasonable, short-term goals. If I decide I want to run a marathon and go running tomorrow, I'd stop after a mile or two and give up forever. But if I decide I want to run to the coffee shop down the street three times this week, suddenly that seems reasonable and I can stick to it. And if it's too easy or too hard, I can adjust my goal next week.

 

You should visit the places where you can see the people play drums .... and it will help trust me !

 

This sounds like a symptom of Depression or Low-Self-Esteem in my honest opinion.
I think when people get depressed we all experience this to some degree, some people repress their emotions and forget about what's bothering them but it remains in their sub-conscious and lingers driving their behavior.

First: What does your diet consist of as that will affect your mood and energy levels as well as have some minor psychological affects on some people.

Second: How strongly do you desire to do the things, that you just can't bring yourself to do on a scale of 1-10. If it's in the higher range this is most likely depression or low-self-esteem of some kind. Some where deep in your mind some thing may be holding you back, keeping you from taking action, but what you must do if I am right, is to ask yourself what it is and why it is then find an answer, some people will dwell upon a problem it's self but if you do that you will never have time enough to think of the answer.

Third: I don't know how open you are to just sitting and thinking, meditating, and stuff like that, but when I get like that, that is what I do and it helps build up my motivation, it also helps to just think about yourself and what drives your actions, to just seriously sit and think really deeply. Of course I believe in Spiritualism so I don't know if that advice would work for you.

Keep in mind that though, I am the Great and Powerful Az, that what I say might not always been perfect advice, but it's what I have to offer, the only thing in my black bag so to speak. lol

Sincerely,
the Great and Powerful, Wizard of Az.