Anyone else struggling to get motivated to do anything??

[Gemi33]

Hi all,

I have continued to work throughout the lockdown (from home), as a result of the circumstances my job has become particularly stressful and the workload is huge. When it gets to the weekend I'm so grateful to have some time away from work but I'm finding that I am just exhausted and a bit flat and can't seem to motivate myself to do anything. I live alone, in a flat (so no garden) and although I go for a walk when I can I don't live out in the country or close to anywhere particularly nice to walk. I feel like I'm wasting my weekends and just feel bored but at the same time just don't feel like doing anything.

Not sure if that makes sense, anyone else feeling the same? Any ideas for things to do to get me out of this rut?

xx

I’d answer but I can’t muster the energy....

Same here , I’m wasting weekends on the iPad. Just can’t motivate myself to do anything.

Glad it's not just me. Sitting here thinking I don't want to waste another day but no idea what to do and just have no enthusiasm to do anything!

xx

I too feel like I'm wasting the days away and when I have to leave the house to go park again (currently wfh) i will feel like I've wasted months but at the same time can't get motivated to do anything

Get into the habit of going for a walk every day. Just 30 minutes will do. If there is somewhere nice you can drive to it will help (i.e. coountryside, woods, etc.).

Just try to make a plan for what you are going to do and/or keep a routine.

I do know what you mean. Very hard to get motivated when you are shattered. Why is work so stressful? Can you step back from it a bit?

I could have written your post OP.

Watching replies with interest. Going for a 30 min walk feels like climbing Everest!

Absolutely feel the same. It's draining and I'm desperate to get back to work.

I didn't realise how much of my motivation was partly due to having to juggle everything. Also how much depended on face to face chats with other people. Working from home is not for me.

Here too. Work has been absolutely awful and I am broken.

Oh yes. I am doing what I have to but I am pissing the rest of my time away and then feeling crap. My get up and go has got up and gone!

I’m exactly the same. I did feel bad until I realised that a friend who was doing tasks all day was panicking that she would run out of things to do. And I thought that is one problem I won’t have!

I try to do a few small things each day and then focus on that rather than what I didn’t do. And if I don’t it’s no biggie.

Planned a walk. I sent the children upstairs to get socks. DD came down with my blusher all over her face, DS came down with a spiderman costume. No socks in sight. I'm swimming against the tide here and I can't be arsed with it at all.

Have you got any decorating to do? It will make you feel you've achieved something when you're ou sit. Ack and admire it

When you sit back and admire it.

I'm deflated. I'm working from home full time and even though I look forward to the weekends and long weekends, I never feel rested properly. I just can't be bothered to go out for the same old walk every bloody day.

This weekend I found out about my third miscarriage so I suspect motivation will be at all time low now.

Just exhausted, mentally exhausted with it all. Had enough of covid, covid news, stupid government, not having a break. I need a holiday in Greece to recover.

Totally understand. I feel like this. Have got back into bed. Can't be arsed to do anything.

My 2 part time jobs are very busy. I just want to be left alone.

Thanks @LittleMissEngineer. It's a bit of a shitshow, I'll admit this, although I think I'm now a veteran and perhaps more thick skinned than I was before. Just wish we had something to look forward to.

Sorry to hear so many of you are struggling! I think living on my own makes it harder - at the end of the day I finish work but there is no distraction, like having dinner and chatting with someone else so all I'm doing is thinking about work and getting anxious.

I usually like reading but I feel so mentally drained from work that I can't seem to concentrate on reading or watching anything, I also feel like having nothing to look forward to is zapping my motivation. A recent holiday was cancelled for obvious reasons and the impact of Covid on my work will last a very long time no matter what happens so it just feels like there's nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

xx

I was chatting to DH, started relaxed and sanguine planning our weekend walk, then went into wishing I could quit working and then just started sobbing uncontrollably for half an hour yesterday afternoon in front of confused DCs.