“I’m Paralyzed, I Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything.”
Asking ourselves, continually, whether or not we feel like what we are going to do makes no sense. This continuous doubt complicates our lives.
Life has to be pleasant, we have to try to like what we do, but continually asking ourselves whether or not we like what we are going to do makes no sense. This continuous doubt complicates our lives.
It’s great to feel free to choose. Choose a path and follow it. That doesn’t mean that everything will be easy and comfortable.
Easy and comfortable things don’t usually work in the medium or long term; but not in the short term because it does not allow us to live with the intensity we would like, it makes us miss many things. Our society is obsessed with comfort. And we need much less comfort than we think. Never in the history of humanity has people lived so comfortably and depended on it so much.
This confinement, and now half confinement, has slowed us down. At first it was fine, it was about relaxing, but we can’t continue with that inertia, it doesn’t feel good to us.
Many people tell me that they don’t feel like doing anything, that their days are useless and they feel bad. To avoid becoming depressed you have to get going.
You think: “I don’t feel like it” and you think “Do I do it or don’t I do it?… I might not do it…”
Why do you think “I feel like it – I don’t feel like it” is a valid criterion?
I propose the following so that “I don’t feel like it” does not dominate your life:
Let your criterion be: “I do what I decide.”
Look for objectives. They don’t have to be great, you just have to believe that they will suit you.
The objectives may be far away but you have to chop them up and turn them into small challenges that are close.
Eliminate part of what you have thought you should do, keep only what is important and be realistic. Don’t be too demanding. If you are very demanding you are more likely to quit.
Decide what you are going to do the next day. It is better to make your purpose day by day, long-term agendas work worse.
When the time comes: don’t allow yourself to doubt. Don’t ask yourself again: Do I do it or don’t I do it?
Reward yourself every day for doing what you set out to do.
When time passes, take stock and you will surely become a fan of this philosophy: I do what I decide.
