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What inspires to get back at it when you feel low?

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    GKP1992
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    For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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      For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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      My mortgage :sigh:

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      Top ten reasons why I'm lazy 1.

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        For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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        dan sh
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        Mortgage, lack of savings for post retirement life.

        "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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          For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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          No mercy here, but they do have a point. Time to pay my mortgage as well. For me, I get low because I cannot fix a problem. I hammer it and just keep going. People look at me and wonder why it's taking so long... (they do NOT offer to help). Look for small victories. Last week I finally fixed a bug that had been plaguing me for 3+ years.

          Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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            For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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            Marc Clifton
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            Sure, my mortgage, but really, several, some snarky, things, within the context of "when I feel low about work": 1. This will pass 2. Why am I getting overly personally involved in my work? 3. The people I work with are morons. Corollary: Why am I feeling responsible for their f***ups 4. Work is not everything. Find other activities that are equally, if not more so, meaningful. In the general context of just "when I feel low": 1. There's people suffering a lot more than me. Corollary: find one and do something, even small, that concretely helps them, even if it's just getting through another day for them. 2. My cat, animals in general, nature. 3. Fantasizing about revenge. ;)

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              For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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              theoldfool
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              I owe I owe so, off to work I go. :)

              >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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                For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                Jeremy Falcon
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                GKP1992 wrote:

                What is it for you?

                Nothing that's kid sister friendly. :thumbsup:

                Jeremy Falcon

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                  For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                  If I am remote... having some jabberwocky time with the kids If I am in the office... going out and getting some sun on the face with some opportune music in my ears And if it is something getting long, going to the source of it if it is a person and telling him/her what I need to say trying to stay polite while doing it

                  M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                    For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                    Roger Wright
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                    Imbibing cleaning products.

                    Will Rogers never met me.

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                      For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                      A few days at home in isolation, playing games and/or watching movies or series. Could be a (long) weekend, could be a week or two.

                      Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

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                        For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                        BillWoodruff
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                        promise of $ reward, prestige, etc. fear of losing face with my peers heavy guilt flagellation

                        «The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

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                          Sure, my mortgage, but really, several, some snarky, things, within the context of "when I feel low about work": 1. This will pass 2. Why am I getting overly personally involved in my work? 3. The people I work with are morons. Corollary: Why am I feeling responsible for their f***ups 4. Work is not everything. Find other activities that are equally, if not more so, meaningful. In the general context of just "when I feel low": 1. There's people suffering a lot more than me. Corollary: find one and do something, even small, that concretely helps them, even if it's just getting through another day for them. 2. My cat, animals in general, nature. 3. Fantasizing about revenge. ;)

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                          Daniel Pfeffer
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                          I would say that any introspective person feels like this on occasion. After all, in the long run, very little of what we do will matter.

                          Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                            For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                            In short, God. I am quite happy to expand on this but it will be nonsense to those who don't share a belief in an almighty creator who is personal and interactive. So, like you, I draw inspiration from writings, but most of them are found in the Bible. Aside from that, yes, famous speeches from literary works before a great battle/self sacrifice, and poems, or snippets of poems and songs: Back in Black, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (specific to mothers), Move (TobyMac), Shake it Off, The Filling Station (Elizabeth Bishop) ...

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                              For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                              Small victories (as some have already said). Look for the "easy wins" or the "low hanging fruit". Chalk up a couple wins and it will get your head back in the game...

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                                For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                                Gary Wheeler
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                                My medication :sigh: .

                                Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  My mortgage :sigh:

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                                  Top ten reasons why I'm lazy 1.

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                                  :laugh:

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                                    For me Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy does it. Especially King Theoden's speech before the battle of Pelennor fields. Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Death! Forth Eorlingas! What is it for you?

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                                    What is the alternative? We get back into it because its what we were doing and we are creatures of habit.

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                                      In short, God. I am quite happy to expand on this but it will be nonsense to those who don't share a belief in an almighty creator who is personal and interactive. So, like you, I draw inspiration from writings, but most of them are found in the Bible. Aside from that, yes, famous speeches from literary works before a great battle/self sacrifice, and poems, or snippets of poems and songs: Back in Black, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (specific to mothers), Move (TobyMac), Shake it Off, The Filling Station (Elizabeth Bishop) ...

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                                      GKP1992
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                                      Your answer evokes two poems, the first "Miles to go before I sleep" by Robert Frost, and "The road goes ever on" by JRR Tolkien.

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                                        A few days at home in isolation, playing games and/or watching movies or series. Could be a (long) weekend, could be a week or two.

                                        Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

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                                        GKP1992
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                                        Playing games has been the general getaway for me. GTA V, Monster Hunter, The Witcher, Elden Ring... all sorts of games.

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                                          Sure, my mortgage, but really, several, some snarky, things, within the context of "when I feel low about work": 1. This will pass 2. Why am I getting overly personally involved in my work? 3. The people I work with are morons. Corollary: Why am I feeling responsible for their f***ups 4. Work is not everything. Find other activities that are equally, if not more so, meaningful. In the general context of just "when I feel low": 1. There's people suffering a lot more than me. Corollary: find one and do something, even small, that concretely helps them, even if it's just getting through another day for them. 2. My cat, animals in general, nature. 3. Fantasizing about revenge. ;)

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                                          GKP1992
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                                          Often for me, it is not anything related to work but life in general, which will still make you not want to do anything, but we must work so need the inspiration to get going.

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                                          1. There's people suffering a lot more than me. Corollary: find one and do something, even small, that concretely helps them, even if it's just getting through another day for them. 2. My cat, animals in general, nature. 3. Fantasizing about revenge. ;)

                                          These are very helpful tips and activities.

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