Not motivated anymore when i have free time

[iceprincess]

when im really busy, i get really motivated to do things that are important for me like starting an exercsise routine, building a daily reading habit, cleaning my room etc. i tell myself ill start right away when i have no more school work to do but then once that free time comes around i have no motivation! i just waste the day again and repeat the cycle again of getting motivated to work on myself only when i am busy with other pointless crap. what does this mean? how can i beat this slump

[Osaid]

Exactly me. And it's gotten worse. On one hand, I'm always talking about hating work and being busy. Then when I'm not busy, oh apparently I have nothing to do and strive for, now I have to fill that void with music and video games. It's a very dull depressive feeling. The work gives me some sort of miniscule purpose at least. I think this is a consequence of not having a life purpose, or maybe just perpetually chasing things. I just can't figure out what I actually wanna do in the big picture, maybe the Life Purpose course will fix this. I think it's probably a lack of passion or direction or something, but I'm unsure how to actually alleviate that, and so I'm stuck in this purgatory where I literally have nothing to do.

[gettoefl]

1. do the hardest unpleasantest most challenging things first thing in the morning preferably before anyone else gets up ... then continue by doing less hard tasks throughout the day ... do the absolute easiest thing before bed

2. do something hard before eating a meal ... we enjoy eating we don't enjoy hard tasks so doing the hard first will spur you to do it well knowing you have a nice meal to look forward to

3. commit to doing at least a couple of hard tasks every day or even just one when you have removed the backlog ... as long as the day's hard task is accomplished you can notch it up as a good day ... doing all this makes it easy for every day to be a good day

[hyruga]

Yeah read the book Eat that frog.