Life is a Daily Battle

And everything in life is a battle, though our tendency is to avoid them and do what's much more pleasant. For most, that's watching TV. For some, it still involves reading books, though that number is dwindling, as our youngest generation almost universally refuse to have anything to do with anything beyond their immediate selves.

One of the many things I learned from Dr. Laura was that we tend to look at other people doing well, and we think they come by their ability naturally. Shy people see confident people stride into a room evidently without a drop of fear that they will be rejected. Yet the truth is that everyone is afraid of rejection, and the people who appear so confident are actually pushing themselves to look and feel comfortable with these strangers. They just have more practice.

As you say, everything is a struggle, and you have to push yourself all the time. Push yourself to do the housework, push yourself to get to work, push yourself to do anything tough, push yourself to make that goal when it's no longer fun, push yourself to learn that skill when it's no longer easy. You don't feel "motivated" often, usually the distractions are so much easier, so much more fun, so much more entertaining. But if you don't want to be a slave to your weakness, you push yourself to do what you should do anyway.