But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitio… - Oliver Burkeman

Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important — or just for enough of what feels important — is that you definitely never will. The reason isn't that you haven't yet discovered the right time management tricks or supplied sufficient effort, or that you need to start getting up earlier, or that you're generally useless. It's that the underlying assumption is unwarranted: there's no reason to believe you'll ever feel 'on top of things,' or make time for everything that matters, simply by getting more done.

if you plan to spend some of your four thousand weeks doing what matters most to you, then at some point you're just going to have to start doing it.