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I've had a strange realization lately. I've noticed that when my work life is good, I lose motivation for the other activities in my life. Granted some of this is probably due to a lack of time and energy, but it feels as if my biggest motivation for hobbies and recreation was the fact that my previous jobs had sucked. If I felt like my 8 to 5 was killing me, I had a bigger need to find something to make my day not feel so bad.

This has also got me thinking about what keeps other people motivated. Especially when it comes to those aspects of life that are purely for fun. I'm in that strange spot in life where my kids aren't quite self sufficient with their own activities so my time outside of work is split between making meals, and keeping them entertained. With working the whole work from home situation I don't find time for any sort of decompression which is even more reason to be motivated to do something purely cathartic.

The times when I've been super motivated to pick up a new hobby, blog more, learn a new programming language or really carve out time for myself is when I'm hating my job. "Sadly" I'm not in that situation currently.

When good work life kills motivation