Where do you find motivation?

When life gets overwhelming and your list of things that must be done exceeds the resources you have to do it with where do you find the motivation to do what must be done?

When the demands placed on you are greater than your ability to do where do you find the strength for one more day?

When the laundry pile is no longer a solitary mount Washmore but more closely resembles the Rocky Mountains and the outside heat makes the thoughts of running the dryer makes you start to melt where do you begin?

When all the dishes are dirty and you are certain you remember a sink under them, somewhere where do you find the motivation to not run to Brad's for a hamburger dinner?  

When you've been stuffing emotions like a teenager with dirty laundry under their bed how do you find the time and safety to pull them out?

When your mind wanders and it goes across the street and then to the PICU how do you concentrate on home, family, and you?

When you feel lonely and emotions echo around inside how do you reach out?

How do you procrastinate what must be done?  Why you blog of course. 

Edited to add:

As I was starting to do a little bit of everything this afternoon this poem came to mind. We had to memorize the first stanza for debate I believe, but I think it would be move powerful being recited by someone who feels like quitting. 

Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won if he'd stuck it out.

Don't give up, though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup,

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are -

It may be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -

It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.