What's your motivational dialogue?

As individuals, we each have different ways of dealing with the multiple facets of PD. Good days, bad days and So-So days each present their own challenges and elicit different responses from us.

I've developed various means to usually (but not always) help keep myself from mental and emotional 'stagnation', but I was wondering how others accomplish this?

Sometimes a simple mental mantra of telling myself to "Keep moving and quit bitc*ing" 3 or 4 times...(OK, maybe 10 or 20 times), is enough to shake me out of my doldrums and prevent me from sitting too long or convincing myself I don't have the energy to tackle something.

Other times, when my inner dialogue starts to say: "Well, my (fill in the bank) feels pretty sore today, I think I'll put off doing ( blank )." I mentally tell myself I've been through worse than this, so I can certainly get through this (blank) I'm trying to put off.

These may sound corny, but for me, they frequently work.

Trust me, I'm not saying I hit a home-run every time with these approaches, but for the most part, I can usually overcome the tendency toward apathy and the stagnation that comes with it. And since apathy is one of the known non-motor symptoms of PD, any opportunity to turn it away I consider a victory.

So, wonderful people here on ParkinsonsDisease.net, please share what motivators you use to help get you through the hours and days with PD.