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Dear Dishwasher,
My life is going no where. I’m so not motivated or inspired that I end
up sitting around day after Day…feeling guilty for what I’m not doing
and too depressed to pretend. So, how do you motivate yourself to get
going? I feel like if I could just get started with my life on the right
track everything would work out. I have no motivation.
Unmotivated Mary
Dearest Un Mary,
I would stop focusing on yourself and choose quite deliberately to help
in the plainest way someone else. Choose a fix, a need, a job, a care,
outside yourself, choose someone who needs your help...for free. Choose
arbitrarily a plant, a pet, a person, an activity that doesn't place you
at the center of the activity. Forget waiting for inspiration just rely
on the mechanical movement of your body in space outward to some inane
or purposeful goal. Try it for the hell of it and see what happens.
Yours,
The Dishwasher
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