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Best Ways To Stay Motivated by YourSelf

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I used to believe I was unstoppable. Juggling a demanding full-time job, graduate faculty, and a site while maintaining a decent social life and a happy marriage. I then made my job and began working for myself. I opened an Etsy shop, recommitted to blogging, and pictured a hectic career in the not-so-distant future with a variety of creative freelance opportunities involving writing, making, teaching, and consulting. With my extra 40+ hours a week, I really could do EVERYTHING. Subsequently, I got re-acquainted with fact. Where once I was a steam engine, writing blog posts on my morning commute, finishing papers in my lunch break, squeezing brunch, Orange Is The New Dark , and tap into a weekend full of research and readings, I was now just a sedentary homebody--getting plenty of sleep, thinking about food a good deal, and appreciating easy moments of quiet nothingness.  Like a balloon from the prior weekend's birthday party, I was gradually deflating, losing all moti