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If you've lost your motivation to work and you cannot imagine working for the rest of your life, and maybe your job isn't toxic and you don't hate what you do, you could just be someone who doesn't dream of labor. The reality is the majority of us will need to work, so here's what I think is one of the best things you can do. You have to focus more on you and your real life and start seeing work for what it is. It is an exchange of your time for money to fund everything else in your life. It is the transaction that makes the rest of your life possible. And then take all of the mental and emotional energy that you have been pouring into work and pour it into things that you actually love, into your hobbies, into side quests, into figuring out what actually lights you up outside of that building. That way when work feels boring or monotonous or hard, which almost every job will, you have so many other things to look forward to outside of that part of your day. I am not saying work a job that you hate or dread, but not every job is going to feel like a passion. And the idea that we should feel fulfilled or motivated or grateful for trading our time for money for 40 plus years is a pretty unrealistic expectation to place on a 9-to-5.