Yeahhh I wouldn’t know how to do that. I’ve certainly been there and I know what it’s like to not have the motivation to do much of anything, but I don’t know if there’s really any solution I could provide that could apply to most people in general. 

Though, even if I could, I don’t think I’d want to have that sort of thing only available to patrons. I can talk about some stuff that worked for me in case that could help you too.

So here’s tips on motivation that worked for me:

I guess the one thing that helped me immensely that might help others is to have someone else rely on your progress. I have someone asking me some mornings “what are you going to try to do today”, and then in the evenings ask how far I got with it, if at all. Since the idea of drawing for my own sake wasn’t enough motivation for me before, the idea that I need to be productive for someone else’s sake was a little better.

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Habit RPG kind of works in that same idea, though in my experience I only held myself to my own goals if someone was constantly on my back about it. It was discouraging at first because I had a lot of failures that I had to own up to and that only fueled that sense of self loathing over not getting anything done, but with time and practice it’s easier to get into a comfortable routine of doing the things you set yourself to do every day. 

I don’t know why getting into a routine helped me so much, but it did. Every day it’s been Make Bed, Take Meds, Exercise, Jog, Eat Food, Chores if any (Clean/put away dishes, sweep floors, do laundry, etc), then the rest of the day is dedicated to drawing which I usually do while watching something on the side. For some reason I work better if my attention is split between working and watching something (which is usually Let’s Plays, various speedpaints on YouTube, or a movie that I like).

Right now I’m all out of whack since I’ve been doing a whole lot of napping due to being sick, but otherwise this method’s been gradually working for me.