In my case, I don’t run into “not being able to make myself pursue my goals effectively” a whole lot. What I do run into a lot is, “not being able to figure out what goals I actually want to pursue.”
I think that what’s going on is this in part. When I find resistance within myself to pursuing some goal (which I read into the comedian watching reruns), I take that as evidence that this goal isn’t what I’m really after. I don’t spend a lot of time in a state of trying to make myself do something, because of my assumption that whatever I really want to do, I won’t need to make myself do. (You seem to be working under a different assumption.)
My experience is that when I hit on something I sincerely want to do, I don’t find resistance in myself to doing it. I just do it. Maybe a lot of problems getting ourselves to do what we want are actually misdiagnosed problems of understanding what we want?
(I actually wrote a post on this topic a while back. Realized halfway through this comment that I was repeating what that post said; but it’s what leapt into my mind when I read this, so I thought I’d press forward anyway.)
In my case, I don’t run into “not being able to make myself pursue my goals effectively” a whole lot. What I do run into a lot is, “not being able to figure out what goals I actually want to pursue.”
I think that what’s going on is this in part. When I find resistance within myself to pursuing some goal (which I read into the comedian watching reruns), I take that as evidence that this goal isn’t what I’m really after. I don’t spend a lot of time in a state of trying to make myself do something, because of my assumption that whatever I really want to do, I won’t need to make myself do. (You seem to be working under a different assumption.)
My experience is that when I hit on something I sincerely want to do, I don’t find resistance in myself to doing it. I just do it. Maybe a lot of problems getting ourselves to do what we want are actually misdiagnosed problems of understanding what we want?
(I actually wrote a post on this topic a while back. Realized halfway through this comment that I was repeating what that post said; but it’s what leapt into my mind when I read this, so I thought I’d press forward anyway.)