Source https://zenhabits.net/feeling-it/
By Leo Babauta
Some days, you’re just not feeling it. It’s not that you’re exhausted, it’s that you’re not in the mood to do the important task that’s in front of you.
You want to just go to distractions all day long, do anything but this thing you’re resisting.
I get it. I have these days too. And sometimes, the answer is just rest.
Other times, it’s useful to find a way to do the work anyway, because if we only do our important work when we feel like it, we might not ever get it done.
It’s useful to learn to do it even when we’re not feeling it.
But how do we do that?
The Mistaken Belief
Most of us have an expectation that we should feel in the mood to do something. We should be excited, rested, focused. And when we do it, it should be easy, comfortable, fun, pleasurable. Something like that.
That results, predictably, in running fro…