[Serious] Hey Reddit, how do you inspire yourself to get up, do your best, and stay positive every day?

It's the shower. The shower doesn't make me feel positive, or desire to do my best. There's no inspiration to shower. It's in the shower that I gather inspiration, a desire to do my best, and a positive feeling. I don't wake up feeling any of those things, but while in the shower I gain all of those feelings. The shower is where I think freely, come up with ideas, get a visualization of the day, and solve problems in my head. If you don't get this feeling while taking a shower, buy a new shower head, they're cheap and great investments for something that has such a profound impact. The more things that you can associate with the shower, after developing the habit, the better. Then you develop a routine. The routine is the part that's truly crucial. Mixing up the routine, later, can be fun or intriguing. It's nice to wake up, and think that there's something you need to do and rearrange your routine in your head to fit around what you need to do. It's somehow inspiring. Perhaps it's the feeling that you matter and that these decisions have repercussions beyond yourself.

I view life as a series of steps. I don't know what's at the top of the stairs, but as long as I can see the next step I'm able to push myself there. There are times when I get back to the point of dreading the next step, but I still take it. Far more often, however, I find myself hyped up and eager to bound up the stairs several at a time. You have to come to terms with the fact that the majority of people are still at the bottom of the stairs, staring up with no end in sight and thinking that the journey is pointless.

As an aside, as someone who suffers from severe chronic pain, the same applies in equal measure and gravity to that scenario as well, there are times I've not been sure I could manage standing up but once the warm water flowed over me, everything else was... washed away. that was an unintentional pun, and I hate that it turned out to be one

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