How do you stay motivated?

[AaronRiot]

One cool thing about people is that mood is contagious. We are a very easily influenced creatures.

Familiar with NLP? Richard Bandler? I work with people in "slumps" and who have other situations going on that need guidance. Best advice from a distance is to have a listen to Bandler speak. If you'd like media or direction to particularly good media pm me

A lot of the other advice is good as well. Keep at it.

[Skumbo]

Alrighty, others are getting into the health aspect, so as a personal trainer.. im going to chime in right now!

If you dont regularly exercise and if you don't eat very well (you'd be surprised how "healthy" eating is actually pretty bad for you), you're weighing yourself down literally and figuratively.

People always say "i dont have the energy to work out by the end of the day"
That's because you're out of shape!
Being out of shape is the equivalent of feeling sick all the time if you can compare it to a time of being in very good health. I'm at the point where I can wake up at 5:30, work out for two hours, go to my 8 am classes, get home at 12, work out again for an hour, go to a 4 hour lab, then get a client or two in in the afternoon. Then i work on the weekends as well. If you told me at the start of college (i started full time) I could do this, I'd call you a crazy person.

I have been very bipolar my whole life, and have struggled with depression past the point of trying to kill myself junior year in high-school, it reached a point where I really had to get my **** together and figure out what was wrong with me. Exercise ended up being my outlet, and I am able to vent myself and mellow out through physical exertion. Other people have different possible outlets as well, such as maybe snake keeping! You just need to find what makes you happy, despite all the craziness that may be going on in your life.

Shoot me an email if you are interested in any sort of work out/diet plan, I normally charge a good chunk o' cash for consultation and assessment, but I'm offering a free one (partly cause its online anyway so its a bit harder to figure everything out lol) if you'd like to take me up on it.


Hope you get things sorted out! I had a real reality check when I moved in with a huge loser a few years ago for a roommate, we ended up kicking him out cause it turned out he was 32 (not 23 like he said) and went through 3 jobs in 4 months..


also.. i like this picture..

[Wolfus_305]

Originally Posted by Skumbo

Exercise ended up being my outlet, and I am able to vent myself and mellow out through physical exertion.

I agree 100% when I exercise regularly i find I feel like I have more energy, I sleep so much better and when I wake up i'm not like slowly waking up, i just feel awake and good and then I really look forward to working out again that day and the next day

[Snakefood]

Skumbo- Love that poster, very true and we take for granted what we have everyday.

OP- all the things you listed in your OP can be contributed to a lack of vit B 12 & 6. A friend of mine sufferef all those things, started taking the B vits and she says all the physical symptoms are gone, and therefore the mental agaony we put ourselves through when dealing with things like that. My mom's friend started complaining about the same sorts of things and I told her that Sonya (above friend) bounds out of bed in the mornings now and faces her day brightly, and so my mom's friend went and got the b complex vits and VIOLA!! same thing for her, she feels all better.

Worth a shot at least, after all it'sjust a vitamin!!

[Kiljosh]

First off, I've read every reply and want to thank you all for your advice. Every post has been helpful in some way.

On the topic of health, I am definitely out of shape. That's one thing I miss about my job, we would get really busy and I'd get plenty of exercise running around town all day. So yea, maybe I should start working out. I planned to as a New Years resolution alongside stopping the b ad habit of nail biting. Haven't bit a nail in almost a month so maybe I should goto the next resolution.

I had heard energy drinks are bad for you, so I ended up quitting them. But honestly, i was drinking them for like 4 years and if you've ever read a can they almost are always packed with b vits. So maybe I do have a deficiency. I'm going to get some One-A-Day vitamins today and see how it does.

On the topic of winter, I love winter. It's by far, my favorite season. But this year I haven't been able to enjoy it like normal. I used to take walks in the woods and haven't this winter. Also, I am used to going to the mountain and snowboarding atleast 3 times a week in winter but no money to do that this year.

Oh, and on the topic of mood being contagious. I fully agree. I think it was the American Heart Association that did a study on the effects of other people's brainwaves on our own bodies. ANd if I remember correctly, you could measure waves from someone else's brain from outside the body. It was shown to influence heart rate and blood pressure I believe. So yes, we are all interconnected in a way. Check out the movie Kymatica, after seeing that movie I changed a lot of the things I was doing in life and lived more for myself. They talk about that study in it.

But thank you guys. So much. Yesterday was a tough day but I'm going to take the advice seen here and try to do something this weekend to "wake me" back up.

[Skumbo]

Originally Posted by Kiljosh

First off, I've read every reply and want to thank you all for your advice. Every post has been helpful in some way.

On the topic of health, I am definitely out of shape. That's one thing I miss about my job, we would get really busy and I'd get plenty of exercise running around town all day. So yea, maybe I should start working out. I planned to as a New Years resolution alongside stopping the b ad habit of nail biting. Haven't bit a nail in almost a month so maybe I should goto the next resolution.

I had heard energy drinks are bad for you, so I ended up quitting them. But honestly, i was drinking them for like 4 years and if you've ever read a can they almost are always packed with b vits. So maybe I do have a deficiency. I'm going to get some One-A-Day vitamins today and see how it does.

On the topic of winter, I love winter. It's by far, my favorite season. But this year I haven't been able to enjoy it like normal. I used to take walks in the woods and haven't this winter. Also, I am used to going to the mountain and snowboarding atleast 3 times a week in winter but no money to do that this year.

Oh, and on the topic of mood being contagious. I fully agree. I think it was the American Heart Association that did a study on the effects of other people's brainwaves on our own bodies. ANd if I remember correctly, you could measure waves from someone else's brain from outside the body. It was shown to influence heart rate and blood pressure I believe. So yes, we are all interconnected in a way. Check out the movie Kymatica, after seeing that movie I changed a lot of the things I was doing in life and lived more for myself. They talk about that study in it.

But thank you guys. So much. Yesterday was a tough day but I'm going to take the advice seen here and try to do something this weekend to "wake me" back up.

I'm not going to tell you NOT to take vitamins, but if you eat properly you would never need them. take a look at the color of your urine after you start taking vitamins, is it yellow? you're pissing away the money you spent on vitamins.

Now, obviously, not everyone is going to eat properly, so they do help if you cant motivate yourself to buy good food, but you could be spending that money on some quality food rather than cheap crap. Also eating vegetables and fruits all day makes you feel so much better than eating crap and having a few pills to offset the poor dietary choices.

That said, energy drinks are far from bad for you. They're bad if all you do is chug 4 cans of regular monsters and play video games all day, but if you have a diet energy drink once a day, its basically the same as having a coffee but with added vitamins that aren't found readily in most diets.\

as for nail biting, im horrible at it and it was my new years resolution and I still do it, heh.

[Kiljosh]

You know what helped me quit biting my nails? I went out and got a manicure kit haha. Every time I start to bite I get out the nail clippers in my pocket.

[SpOoKy]

I go through this pretty much every winter and there is only 2 things that work for me. Since I work a very physical job outside all day in the summer I try to replicate it.

Go to the gym, or just take a walk or jog everyday, get your blood moving. I also once a month in the winter go to a tanning salon. i know they are so bad for you but I go for a quick 7 min tan in a regular bed and I am completely new person again. A 7 min tan in a regular bed should only cost you about 10bucks or less.

[Skumbo]

Originally Posted by Kiljosh

You know what helped me quit biting my nails? I went out and got a manicure kit haha. Every time I start to bite I get out the nail clippers in my pocket.

I barely have nails to clip at this point, lol

Originally Posted by SpOoKy

I go through this pretty much every winter and there is only 2 things that work for me. Since I work a very physical job outside all day in the summer I try to replicate it.

Go to the gym, or just take a walk or jog everyday, get your blood moving. I also once a month in the winter go to a tanning salon. i know they are so bad for you but I go for a quick 7 min tan in a regular bed and I am completely new person again. A 7 min tan in a regular bed should only cost you about 10bucks or less.

Oh man yeah.. I'm so fizzed about the snow situation this year, normally im out skiing like a machine all day every day that i have a free moment (part of why i live 2 miles from a ski mountain) but ALL winter its been rain or too warm, i've been to the mountain TWICE and its mid february.