Do you fine drunks think drinking has some effect on motivation? In any sense, tho I'm mostly speaking about art for myself.
Early on I found that it was much easier to start a project/be creative after the first couple of drinks, tho equally as easy to get too distracted to work on it after a few more.
tho sometimes I get really hammered without any other intention and find that I've written something/worked on some music in a state in which I barely remembered doing it.
Altho it doesn't give me more motivation to clean the house, hell no. Tho I've never done it undrunk.
I think ultimately it's some pavlovian thing... if you get in the routine you can frequently work on art or do chores while shithoused...
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Re: drinking and motivation
I definitely feel more motivated after a few drinks. It's a fine line though because if you keep a good pace of drinking you just wanna kind of sit there and have more.
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My motivation is directly affected by drinking, or rather the planning of the drinking. If I have something I need to get done, be it laundry, mowing the yard, writing a poem, whatever, I start out by planning the drinks. I'll have a drink while I am planning the drinking, then I set it up like this: OK I have this to get done so I can drink this while I'm wating for this, and here is a nice something to carry my drinks in until i get to this part where I shouldn't really drink so I need an inconspicious flask or cup so I can drink while I'm there, then I have this many drinks left for doing this part. By then I'll be near the store so I can get another bottle/30 pack and drink that while I'm finishing this.
That's all it takes - now I have an actual plan for drinking through this task and I have made it all seem the actual task revolves solely around the drinks, which I am very fond of. Now I have a plan and I have to carry through on this so I can have all the drinks I planned out. Simple.
That's all it takes - now I have an actual plan for drinking through this task and I have made it all seem the actual task revolves solely around the drinks, which I am very fond of. Now I have a plan and I have to carry through on this so I can have all the drinks I planned out. Simple.
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Re: drinking and motivation
Brilliant.ThirstyDrunk wrote:My motivation is directly affected by drinking, or rather the planning of the drinking. If I have something I need to get done, be it laundry, mowing the yard, writing a poem, whatever, I start out by planning the drinks. I'll have a drink while I am planning the drinking, then I set it up like this: OK I have this to get done so I can drink this while I'm wating for this, and here is a nice something to carry my drinks in until i get to this part where I shouldn't really drink so I need an inconspicious flask or cup so I can drink while I'm there, then I have this many drinks left for doing this part. By then I'll be near the store so I can get another bottle/30 pack and drink that while I'm finishing this.
That's all it takes - now I have an actual plan for drinking through this task and I have made it all seem the actual task revolves solely around the drinks, which I am very fond of. Now I have a plan and I have to carry through on this so I can have all the drinks I planned out. Simple.
Cleaning the house or going to the post-office will never be the same.
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"We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one." Voltaire
"The prince of darkness is a gentleman." Shakespeare.
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I get it! thanx for sharingz and drinx for everyonezThirstyDrunk wrote:My motivation is directly affected by drinking, or rather the planning of the drinking. If I have something I need to get done, be it laundry, mowing the yard, writing a poem, whatever, I start out by planning the drinks. I'll have a drink while I am planning the drinking, then I set it up like this: OK I have this to get done so I can drink this while I'm wating for this, and here is a nice something to carry my drinks in until i get to this part where I shouldn't really drink so I need an inconspicious flask or cup so I can drink while I'm there, then I have this many drinks left for doing this part. By then I'll be near the store so I can get another bottle/30 pack and drink that while I'm finishing this.
That's all it takes - now I have an actual plan for drinking through this task and I have made it all seem the actual task revolves solely around the drinks, which I am very fond of. Now I have a plan and I have to carry through on this so I can have all the drinks I planned out. Simple.
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We took a run into town to get some plumbing supplies today. $3 pipe. $15 case of Lionshead. $8 on pizza.
We then used our bottled motivation to clean the garage, and by clean I mean "burn", and by garage I mean, all the shit inside the garage we could drag to the fire pit.
We then used our bottled motivation to clean the garage, and by clean I mean "burn", and by garage I mean, all the shit inside the garage we could drag to the fire pit.
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Re: drinking and motivation
I mow my lawn with a Siberian sunset Vodka OJ Grenadine before after and during.For anything else beer. I need something the refreshing as I mow my lawn.DeeboCools wrote:Do you fine drunks think drinking has some effect on motivation? In any sense, tho I'm mostly speaking about art for myself.
Early on I found that it was much easier to start a project/be creative after the first couple of drinks, tho equally as easy to get too distracted to work on it after a few more.
tho sometimes I get really hammered without any other intention and find that I've written something/worked on some music in a state in which I barely remembered doing it.
Altho it doesn't give me more motivation to clean the house, hell no. Tho I've never done it undrunk.
I think ultimately it's some pavlovian thing... if you get in the routine you can frequently work on art or do chores while shithoused...
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I don't think I've mowed a lawn undrunk since I was a kid...beerkegbilly wrote: I mow my lawn with a Siberian sunset Vodka OJ Grenadine before after and during.For anything else beer. I need something the refreshing as I mow my lawn.
"S0briety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes." -William James