Whether it's exercising, washing the dog, cleaning the laundry room, taking a walk, doing the dishes, etc etc etc once I start it's no problem. It's the starting that gets me sometimes.

I know this sounds dorky but if I put something on my calendar and the cell phone rings and I look and it's scheduled then I'll do it. That is how I do my exercises the rooster crows and I get up and do it.

What about you?

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Funny you should post this, because I have been thinking about this a lot lately.

I don't know if I have lost motivation or what the problem is, but the past few months I just haven't done a darn thing around the house and it looks like it. I know part of the problem was my son being home over the summer and I get so tired of picking up after him, but even now I just look at the mess in the kitchen and walk away instead of taking care of it.

I start a task, like cleaning out the garage. I will work like mad for about an hour or two, and then I go inside and that's it. I'll start cleaning out a closet, get everything out, and then look at the mess and walk away from it. It will take me two weeks to sort everything and get it back in the closet.

Sometimes I wonder if I had ADD or something - why can't I just start a task and keep with it to completion.

I'm the same way and that's why I am sitting here instead of going downstairs to make potato salad and baked beans for a cookout tonight! With me it's just plain laziness with a bit of depression on the side!

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Thanks for much for this thread...I'm so happy and relieved to hear that we're all in the same boat! I've felt so overwhelmed lately. No motivation to do much of anything. That's totally not me...I'm not a lazy person and I used to be constantly on the go. I couldn't sit still. Now all I want to do is sleep and it's so hard for me to start any projects....and I have a long list of them. I feel that as soon as I get some things done, there are ten other things waiting. I can't seem to get ahead. I feel like I have absolutely no help around this house and I'm fed up. Things have been piling up and there is no end in sight. Sigh. I keep telling myself to just get off my fat ass and do it...but even that doesn't work. My husband just came back from being away from two weeks at a school for his job. He said he doesn't know what the problem is because the kids are older now and more self sufficient...I should have all the time in the world to do things. For some reason it seems like things were easier when they were small! Arrrrgggghhhhhh! ~Lisa

I think some of this may have to do with what is going on. I am kind of scared even though I have "no money" to speak of no investments and don't owe. I am scared of what is happening and of a depression. Maybe that's why it's so hard to get going these days.

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