» Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump. By Leo Babauta Even the most motivated of us — you, me, Tony Robbins — can feel unmotivated at times.
In fact, sometimes we get into such a slump that even thinking about making positive changes seems too difficult. But it’s not hopeless: with some small steps, baby ones in fact, you can get started down the road to positive change. Yes, I know, it seems impossible at times. You don’t feel like doing anything. How To Recover From 10 Types of Demotivation. The Art of Getting Started. This is my first blog for , and I've decided to begin at the beginning.
Like many writers, I dread the start of a new piece of work, or, to put it more accurately, I dread the of the start. To begin anything is to open myself up to the possibility of failure and disappointment, two things nobody enjoys very much. Ideally, I would only ever embark on projects that were guaranteed to be perfect both in conception and execution, and were therefore also guaranteed to be anxiety-free, but as it is I am a real person doing real things in the real world, so my choice is to face the anxiety - the feeling I mentioned earlier - or never get anything done ever.
Perfectionism is, apparently, functional for some people.