 well as I hear the winds howling outside blowing away the last of the warm season as we get ready to bring in November and the dark cold winter it's a good time to remind myself and anybody listening that there is no way around drudgery there's always going to be mundane drudgery uninspired boring now I can accept in theory it could be possible perhaps to have a life where every everything is so charged with meaning that there's never a time that is fully drudgery and that may be an ideal but it's certainly I'm certainly not there yet or near it there's no way to make everything interesting everything inspirational charged up at all times I think even if I have a good mindset overall sometimes I'll just can just not feel great a little physical discomforts all the little inconveniences that can get in the way it's always there's always going to be drudgery so one thing to say is simply that it's okay it's not a sign of motivational failure a lack of inspiration if you're not at all times of day pumped up with excitement at the chance of improving yourself for doing whatever work you have of that day there's going to be boring dull plodding work and for a lot of people that's a big part of the day that is sometimes seems like it takes over life that sadly enough it's not all together uncommon for it to feel sometimes like that is what life has to offer and if it goes too far it can really get pretty dismal to just feel like what do I have to look forward to in my life just more days of dull unsatisfying drudgery and this is the kind of despair that can easily lead to escapism through drugs and fantasy and anything to just avoid looking at the present reality because we cannot live in pure drudgery forever we need some kind of inspiration some we need to believe there's something beyond everyday dullness so one tool that I find very useful or it's more general than a tool it's really just just a simple principle that anything that appears like pointless drudgery pointless dull meaningless boring all these things we can't necessarily make them exciting we can't necessarily change the activities that they become inherently fun and we can't necessarily trick ourselves or convince ourselves that somehow these really are exciting things in and of themselves but what we can do is ask why am I doing these things why am I doing this mundane dull plodding I'm really getting tired of saying the word drudgery I'm saying the word drudgery a lot it's becoming drudgery just saying the word drudgery but you know why is it what why do we do these things it's always connected to something bigger there's always a reason why we're doing the bad thing that connects to some kind of a larger purpose something that is not mundane and dull something that we do actually care about but it's so easy to get lost in the day-to-day mundanity the little details that are painfully boring that we can easily forget that connection lose the the sense of that connection like Monday like washing the dishes daily mundane doing paperwork of all kinds bureaucratic formalities and these these things there's nothing that we do that isn't somehow connected into something bigger there's some reason why we are doing it even if sadly it's just if it's doing some kind of a job we hate just because we need to make money to pay off bills while we're paying those bills because we want to live and we have ideas about what kind of life we want to have and being able to pay those bills is one step connecting towards building the life we want so no matter how dull no matter how trivial it always connects into something bigger and eventually reaches something we care about and as long as what we do has meaning feels connected to something meaningful then it is no longer pure drudge it's no longer fully mundane it becomes connected to something great so the next time I face this feeling of not wanting to go through the next cycle of routine dull tasks I will attempt to remind myself why I'm doing these things what is the bigger picture that this is one tiny piece of there's nothing interesting about taking this one step itself but it's one step along a path that leads to something meaningful and good