How do you stay motivated when you have nothing to look forward to?

exercise

Find something you are passionate about and go all in.

Hobby
New sport
Charity

Things don’t always go right but you have to understand the bigger picture.

Give to yourself via time with things you love. Give to others with things they need (charitable orgs not money necessarily).

Flip the script

Nothing ever goes right for anyone under the age of 30 (not a dig at you, I went through it too), but one thing I've noticed about the generations behind me is that yall love to compare yourselves to celebrities and millionaires FAR more than GenX and earlier did growing up to their 30's.

Delete social media, go visit a hospital and walk around - look around at the people in there and realize how good you actually have it. I have been going through brutal cancer treatments over the last year - 3 surgeries and I'm going into my 8th round of chemo next Wednesday. I'm still optimistic and happy, why? Because in the first week of chemo last year I was parked in a chair next to a twelve year old going through a similar treatment. The kid was fighting and strong, still is - I made friends with him and his family because the hospital wouldn't let family back there to sit with him during the treatment.

Find motivation, dude. It ain't as bad and there's people going through far far worse.

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Sorry if this is the wrong place to post. Still young, but nothing going right for me as of now. How to stay on track? I have to figure out what to do soon.

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Eat Cheetos and watch porno’s.

Make sure to wash your hands before an interview. You can always show up to an interview with an orange dick.

Change your daily routine. It’s good to shake things up. Go for a walk or hike - take advantage of whatever outdoor activities are available in your locale. Always remember that bad days are not permanent and some sunny days are ahead. And as someone already posted, stay off Facebook, Instagram, etc.

I dont trust a poster with 29 posts and 17 threads started

Invent goals.
Trick yourself.
Focus on other things.
Reinvent yourself.
Do things differently.
Do things opposite.
Do drugs.
Don’t do drugs.

into every life a rain must fall.

Took me 10+ years to find a job I liked and a wife worth keeping. Much of my life was the 'in between' where I was continually dissatisfied and always trying to figure out how to get up the next rung on the ladder.

Then one day I was smiling and watching my sons roughhouse and had the sudden realization that regardless of whatever I thought of people, politics, work, school, personal responsibilities etc, I could, at that moment, be living my best and happiest days. my kids would again never be as young as they were then and neither will I.

But as for 'staying on track?' pick a goal and stick to it. Obsess over it if you have to, research every facet of it and make the things you do become steps towards accomplishing it.

Start thinking like whatever you want to accomplish is already a guarantee, "It's going to happen." and all that's left is to put in the work. I have accomplished (almost) every goal I have ever made for myself with this attitude. And yes, I got a bit obsessive; if there was a car I wanted I looked every single day to see what was out there. When I wanted to buy a house I looked at houses every single day to see if there was anything new. When I got sick of my job I looked at jobs every single day. In grad school I looked at jobs of my future profession every single day, browsing and looking up salaries and thinking about future finances like I had already graduated. etc., I could go on.


It may not work for everyone, but it's worth a shot.

"Showing up is 80 percent of life." - Woody Allen

You don't need to be the hardest working person in the world, or the smartest/most talented. You just need to put yourself out there and keep trying. Too many times in my life I would just sit around and waste my free time letting the world pass me by.

Make it a point to do something with your time. Even if it's just going fishing or hiking, you will almost always feel better about yourself than if you just stayed in your room.