How do you yall "inspire yourself" out of a funk?

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__Elijahahahaho
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14 Apr 2025, 6:33 am

I am stuck in my old habits,
trying to finish a project that was probably too big,
feeling uninspired...

Suggest something I might not think ot.



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14 Apr 2025, 7:30 am

Mine is less about what's being fed in my head, and more about my biochemistry.

"Looking for inspiration" just doesn't work with me. Probably because I'm stuck in some sort of developmental time loop.


Not even reminders, feel goods and threats of failure make me move from whatever disruption, until whatever week of the month finally just pass and I start moving on again.

Every other week of restarting back to zero, cleaning up the mess of me during those disruptive weeks.

Then it repeats back to dwindling into complacency, and into series of procrastination until I basically forgot what am I doing something for...

Over and over and over.
Too consistent for normal everyday ups and downs of living. :roll:


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14 Apr 2025, 8:28 am

__Elijahahahaho wrote:
I am stuck in my old habits,
trying to finish a project that was probably too big,
feeling uninspired...

Suggest something I might not think ot.


Call someone and infodump on the about your project. That usually gets me going because explaining it helps me I'll find out where I'm stuck and how I can address the issue. It can also keep me accountable.

Put on an animal documentary and relate to the animals. They're going through struggles too.


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14 Apr 2025, 9:54 am

good ideas.



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14 Apr 2025, 7:41 pm

I've never know inspiration come to order. I suppose communicating with other people about the stuck project, maybe even inviting collaboration, or just communicating with other people as a general thing might lead to clearing a block. People are complicated and they tend to generate new ideas. Or maybe take a look at similar work by others to see if they've done things in refreshingly different ways. Or just wait for life to shake you out of the rut. And even taking a break, doing something different, can be useful for giving things a new perspective when you return to them.



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14 Apr 2025, 9:20 pm

Participant626 wrote:
__Elijahahahaho wrote:
I am stuck in my old habits,
trying to finish a project that was probably too big,
feeling uninspired...

Suggest something I might not think ot.


Call someone and infodump on the about your project. That usually gets me going because explaining it helps me I'll find out where I'm stuck and how I can address the issue. It can also keep me accountable.


I'd assume you don't even need it to be a real person.

Sometimes all it takes is an engineering duck.


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