Q: People ask you how to get motivated to do stuff, and you often ask them why they have to do the thing. It seems simple - "just answer the question, and that answer is the thing that motivates you" - but that's not the problem. I know why I need to do it. I know that doing the thing, whatever it is, is the most logically, emotionally, and/or spiritually satifying thing I can do right now, the thing I'll look back on and say "I'm glad I did that thing." It is the best thing to do in every regard, except one: doing the thing will make the right now go from being okay to feeling sucky, and that just sets the rest of my brain in a tizzy, and I try to fight against it but my inner fatass always wins. So, Bill Wurtz, I ask you, how do I garner the mental power to stop my griping and groaning and just do the sucky thing already?
A: your 4th sentence is your motivation to do the thing. your motivation not to do it is that it is 'sucky.' i actually don't quite understand the task if you've described it as satisfying in so many ways, but then you described it as sucky. the good news is, if you want to do it you can do it, and if you don't want to do it you don't have to. but if you are having trouble deciding, perhaps you could go white water rafting and that might help you think a bit faster