The title says it all. For me, quitting social media and walking helped me a lot. How about you?

Hi everyone,

I am a very curious person who loves to dabble in various things. Often, I juggle various hobbies, courses on things I am curious about or want to learn. Learning new things fills my bucket as does expressing creativity either through learning art or problem solving.

I'm employed and have been at the same place for 20+ years... but as far as I can remember, I've always lacked fulfilment. I'm 40 now....

I've dabbled throughout the years, but never achieved enough from a side business perspective to leave, or I've tried various endeavours but because of my curious nature, would shift to the next thing, appeasing the early dopamine hit that comes from something new. Rinse and repeat.

Lately, I've thought about my problem, if its considered one, and thought how can I get better at this? Better as in, understanding why I jump from thing to thing, and the urge to learn something new.

It can't be just me in this scenario?

What if I can learn as much as possible about what I experience today, find a solution sort of speak and if all goes well, spread what I learned to others in a similar situations? Maybe this is some sort of calling that I should go all in on? I don't know... but if I can help myself then maybe I can reciprocate that outwards...

What advice, or resources can you suggest to help someone with a busy mind?
Books, podcasts, videos... anything really.

If you have been in a similar situation what did you find helped?

SA

I just feel like a complete mess and my mind doesn't feel like is in the right place. For so many months I've been avoiding facing the reality of life and I just seem to do repetitive things over and over again despite knowing is not going to get me anywhere. I've become so lazy unmotivated and seem that I even lost willpower to change. I seem to accept defeat and failure. I know I'm just unhappy right now and want to change my life for the better but is so many things I need to fix yet I'm already overwhelmed and seem to not take actions because feelings and emotions are in the way

Hi! People aren’t really reading much these days because of technology making it really hard for us to focus for even short periods of time. Add depression to the mix and you got the perfect combo for never reading again in your entire life. And also having to study can leave you pretty meh about wanting to read even more in your free time. That’s me pretty much.

I know people recommend to even do it for 10-15 minutes a day (don’t think I could do 30mins/day, that sounds just daunting, it’s hard for me to even physically pick up a book). What do you think? Does that little effort really matter? With only 10mins/day it’d take quite a while to finish a book, but still compared to not reading at all it’s a bit better I guess? But maybe you’d just abandon the book in the process since it just takes way too long? Could you even read one average book per month with only 10mins/day?

I’m also personally not a fan of stopping halfway through a chapter so that could be an issue as well. Maybe an easy book with shorter chapters could help, but how would I find one like that that interests me? I could definitely try to read some a-bit-rather-childish books because they’re easier, sometimes funnier and more light-hearted than books targeted at an older audience, I actually think I’d enjoy doing that, but fear of being criticized by my family.

How did you overcome this reading issue yourself? Any tips and advice? Thank you!

Anybody else struggle with extreme motivation highs and lows? Like right now at almost 10pm at night I have alot of motivation. But all of yesterday I hated everything/had bo motivation to do anything that I wanted/needed to do.

Or does anyone have any tips for keeping a more middle ground constant motivation or line of it?

The moment you feel to recoil is when you hide your vulnerabilities from your loved one and the world.

As a writer, if you hesitate to put a pen down on paper, it is the moment you are afraid to share your innermost thoughts.

When a painter deepens his brush in the paint and lets it soak for hours, he judges himself.

The world doesn’t care. You do.

And when you stop thinking about, what the world will think, you start creating with utmost honesty.

It’s not the world that is judging you, it is you who is doing so.

The judgment that arises is a testament to how your image stands in front of the audience.

The imaginary image is the hindrance, restraining you from facing the audience.

You trap yourself in the trap of how many views you get on the internet, rather than staying true to your view.

Your worldview is what your audience is interested in.

They have their own and are looking for a different perspective.

Not to cement their beliefs about something, but to blossom them.

We want more people who are creative.

Read more - https://jett.me/insight/view-is-more-important-than-views/

We wake up and drag ourselves into the formality of occurrence called life.

Everybody is running after the conventional, established and already that is proven.

And nobody is interested in something that has the potential to be great.

It requires courage to recognise the greatness of a crystal not yet carved into a diamond.

It requires an investment of time to walk with the person with potential, through his journey towards his aim.

It needs self-reflection to recognise our very own greatness.

It needs an eye for the beauty which is unborn.

To recognise this greatness is also to recognise your greatness and share it with the world.

As we only see in the world what we are. The world is a mere reflection of ourselves.

But we live in a false notion that greatness is picture-perfect.

An image that is constantly bombarded on us about what it means to be great.

To have certain belongings, to have a standing in society and to have something that everybody wants and rarely needs.

Very few take time.

To pause for a while and inspect what is it that we are doing on this planet.

What do we have that can be shared with the world?

What is it that can be shared as much as the world needs and yet we are never out of it?

Read More - https://jett.me/insight/sharing-greatness-everyday/

I have and exam coming up in march next year. I have classes also going on so i have decided that the days i have class illystudy for 5 hours and the days without class I'll study for 14 hours. But I can't seem to get up in the morning. I'm getting really demotivated and needs to change and stick to my plan any tips?

I dont know if this is the right sub for this, but I need to shout to the void, and could use some motivational words.

I (23M) just signed my contract for the Army and ship to training at the beginning of January, to start a 5 year contract. I don't know exactly everything that's stressing me, as I'm not worried about my ability to complete training or deployment. Maybe I'm worried about being away from home for so long, maybe I'm worried about my family, I dont know. Whatever the case, the thing that definitely stresses me most is not being able to find love in the long run (I'm gay if it matters). But I know I must reside myself to the fact that I can't know or control the future or the unknown. I tell myself so long as I'm a good person that treats the world around me with love, and love myself, I'll find someone who loves me. I've been in a serious relationship once before and, while I wont get into details, it's next to impossibe for me to trust anyone new now. I got seriously betrayed and hurt. Even so, I will keep pushing forward. I have a quote I tell myself: "there's no such thing as fear, only cowardice". So long as I don't believe in fear, it won't control me, and I refuse to be a coward.

Again, I don't know if this is the right sub, but I had to get this all out, and could really use some kind words. Thank you for listening to me.

I don't even know if it's really considered for lazy or just lack of motivation and self belief. But I just feel that my brain is trying to find ways to make me feel bad and later take some action on it. So for example, you binge watching TV and you get this thought of worry like I gotta get in shape. Instead of watching TV, I'm supposed to go gym. But then you actually choose to just watch tutorial on fitness and that is the way our brain tricks us on feeling good. Like you don't put actual effort in actions because the mind wants to find a short easy path.

And this is something I'm struggling to overcome, like why am I simply not doing the things I know I should be doing. Yes I'm confused idk the proper steps to getting it done therefore I'm allowing myself to waste time yet deep down I just feel immense guilty shame and feeling of trap

What do you say to yourself?

Sometimes everything just feels so overwhelming and I have no motivation to start. I've been playing my bass for 2 years and still play like a beginner. I tell myself I'l read my bible more every day but still I read a page or two. I want to read for 30 mins daily like I used to but just don't. I'm addicted to my phone and YouTube even though I don't even enjoy being on them. And I want it to stop. Can someone give me some advice on where to begin, or how to find the motivation? It all feels like too much to do on my own and I have no one to talk to.

I just experience so much blues moment for no reason at times. Sometimes I feel that I'm not even living in the presence moment of time. So much overthinking accumulates and lack of actions just brings me down. I end up feeling defeated in life and don't even feel like working on anything even though I just have ton of things to work on. My mind just doesn't give me support. It's always finding ways to avoid the work. It's very easy to grab a snack and use the phone instead of doing tasks because that gives you stress or confusion so you just end up not doing it.

You start to do things that you know aren't good but old habits are source of comfort and pleasure. You binge food, stay up late and doom scroll. You don't take actions and you feel this victimization as if something is wrong with you and u don't even realize how much time has been wasted.

I've always struggled with bullying, or as we called it, being picked on. At school and at home, in Brazil.

At school, we kind of expected it since I was the chubby kid, "four eyes," dramatic, sentimental... But at home? It was constant and harsh. I eventually got used to it. I lost myself in movies and TV shows (shoutout to Sony, WB, TNT). To avoid bullying at school, I would "hide" in the library or sit alone in a corner of the yard, creating my own TV series.

I started doing theater, getting involved with independent film folks in Brazil, and discovered my passion. Throughout my teenage years, I continued to escape bullying, often skipping classes to hang out in libraries.

In my first year of high school, I dropped out. I'd leave to "go to class," take the bus downtown to the public library, museums, cultural centers... I spent my afternoons there, returning home as if I'd been to school. In my mind, I was already on my path to a career.

At one point, the school even canceled my enrollment. This was public school in Brazil in 1994—when the internet was still a dream and cell phones barely worked. Naturally, my parents found out and were shocked and angry...

But I had something "right" in my mind. I was going to be an actor. I was going to have my own TV series! How could someone who didn’t even want to finish basic school achieve that? But willpower is an unmeasurable force.

With willpower, we can build buildings, civilizations, families...

In the 2000s, I foun that "The Secret" doc online. My sister and I dabbled in it, half-jokingly. I read the book, watched the film, and dived deeper into the authors' works. (Yes, I’m a nerd—I was the kid who skipped class to read in the library!)

I began practicing gratitude for everything I had—health, possessions, life—and imagined what it felt like to already have my dreams: seeing myself on TV, giving interviews, on the cover of newspapers...

In 2005/06, while watching a TV commercial featuring part of the cast from a film called "Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões," my friend Thiago Lazeri and I thought, "This would make a great series." We envisioned friends talking, using slang and inside jokes, just being themselves.

We created it, filmed it with an old camera Thiago’s dad had given him, and then wondered, “What now?” So we pulled out the phone book. Yes, this was 2005! We searched for "TV stations," found contacts for all of them in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

We first approached the nearest station, a public cable channel called POATV. We thought, "Let’s name the series POARS and pitch it to them."

We did, and they liked it. They started airing it without even listening to the sound—just on visuals.

“We like it! Young people, city imagery. Let’s air it. Leave us the DVD; we’ll show it throughout the day.”

We left in disbelief. We had a TV series!

We later moved to a bigger channel and began producing daily 15-minute episodes. At ULBRATV, we created over 60 episodes. Then we went to RBS, the local Globo network, which aired it on their channel TVCOM, where we produced over 270 episodes of the first youth comedy soap opera in the region—completely different from anything else on Brazilian TV.

The entire story could fill a book, maybe a series of books, or even a TV series itself. The behind-the-scenes stories intertwined with the show, including a devastating fire that destroyed our studio...

Some episodes, in poor quality, are on YouTube.

It was called **vidAnormal**. It aired Monday to Friday at 6 PM and ranked 3rd in audience share, sometimes even hitting 1st during reruns at midnight.
Here is the imdb link: https://imdb.com/title/tt6258018/

I truly believe that willpower was a huge catalyst for all this. Of course, it took a lot of effort, dedication, and work. But positive thinking, combined with chasing my dreams, created incredible, unimaginable opportunities.

It’s not just about thinking and waiting for things to materialize. You have to make it happen, be ready when opportunities arise, and the courage to say yes and believe in yourself (thanks to years of therapy) were undoubtedly the main reasons everything happened.

I don’t think just thinking about it gave me this chance, but I KNOW that visualizing and mentally preparing before it happened opened doors within me to achieve my dreams.

Just like having my beautiful family and being a father of five. I visualized it, and now I have all this to share with you! ♥️♥️♥️

Have a great Sunday, Reddit!

Hey so tomorrow is my science exhibition and I created a project called regenerative break system but it didn't work so what should I do. Do I take it tomorrow and say that because of some problem it is not functioning and then explain about it or I just drop it the real reason I can't drop it because it is compulsory to make the project so what should I do

Life is going great, do something. I am in dismay, do something.

Do something, Do something, Do Something.

How have we come to this phase in our culture, where we always want to do something about life?

Ambitions and Borrowed aspirations have taken over what we really are.

So much so that enjoyment and relaxation are also replaced with amusement.

An activity. 

We are far away from the reality of our true nature.

What motivates us is what the world is busy doing.

We are busy wondering in the wilderness of unexpected outcomes with conviction.

How has the art of living turned into the craft of building one?

Why do we invest so much energy in shaping something formless? Abstract.

It's a mystery how we came to a point to live unnatural life. Cosmetic.

But it is not a secret that we are bestowed the ability to think about what we are thinking.

And this superpower can solve many problems for us and propel us further into the evolution.

A superpower that eventually allows us to do nothing, not even think.

Read more - https://jett.me/insight/the-art-of-doing-nothing/

What do you do too keep up motivation

So i am in a life crisis kind of a situation where i feel like i need to change somethings but not able to do.

I don't have any problem i think in doing daily tasks but not able to give time or keep.doimg something for my personal growth. It may be reducing weight, eat healthy, travel etc.

I see there are lots of apps which you can put in task and keep tracking them. But i have a different problem, my mind tells me that just chilling or lazing out is important than doing other stuff.

Is there some tested way to bring it back to right track ? Maybe recording yourself saying that yes this is what you want not the other thing and continuously watching it when do negative things ? For e.g binge watching or just scrolling through phone instead of going out for visiting places etc.

What do you do to keep track of yourselves ?