{"id":451,"date":"2008-10-16T17:50:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/10\/16\/we-dont-feel-motivation-we-create-motivation\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:06","slug":"we-dont-feel-motivation-we-create-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/we-dont-feel-motivation-we-create-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"We Dont Feel Motivation- We Create Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just did an interview with a writer from Self Magazine on the topic of the January blues. She asked some excellent questions- and one of my ideas that she really liked was the concept that we can&#8217;t WAIT to want to do something- we have to just do something. That&#8217;s my first strategy in Get it Done When You&#8217;re Depressed. Depression never wants to do anything! I can sit until I&#8217;m frozen solid before I&#8217;ll want to get out and get on with my life if I&#8217;m depressed. <\/p>\n<p>I think- where&#8217;s my motivation? Well, depression is eating it like candy!  I want to be motivated, so I create it using the stuff I talk about in my books: <\/p>\n<p>Set up a time to work with a friend- tomorrow I will meet my friend Karen to work together from 1-4PM. I will work on my book that&#8217;s due and she is going to work on her novel. Just having her there means I will stay and actually work. <\/p>\n<p>This is just one idea I use to create motivation. I always feel better after I do something- even if it took me hours to get out the door! <\/p>\n<p>Julie <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did an interview with a writer from Self Magazine on the topic of the January blues. She asked some excellent questions- and one of my ideas that she really liked was the concept that we can&#8217;t WAIT to want to do something- we have to just do something. That&#8217;s my first strategy in Get it Done When You&#8217;re Depressed. Depression never wants to do anything! I can sit until I&#8217;m frozen solid before I&#8217;ll want to get out and get on with my life if I&#8217;m depressed. <\/p>\n<p>I think- where&#8217;s my motivation? Well, depression is eating it like candy! I want to be motivated, so I create it using the stuff I talk about in my books: <\/p>\n<p>Set up a time to work with a friend- tomorrow I will meet my friend Karen to work together from 1-4PM. I will work on my book that&#8217;s due and she is going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/we-dont-feel-motivation-we-create-motivation\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12161,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/12161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}