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I do want to feel excitement and all those other positive emotions
This is natural. Our subconscious craves this feeling.
But what is causing you boredom?
I had a few bad days here and there
Lack of immediate results/gratification!
Your subconscious wants to feel good by seeing immediate results. When it doesn't get it, it starts fighting back and sabotages further activity, causing you to feel bored. All the logic and convincing in the world has not changed the fact. You understand it intellectually, but not at the deeper subconscious level, hence nothing changes.
belief that I don't have to feel like doing something in order to do it.
You can try to change that belief, which is difficult.
I have not yet integrated that belief into my mind.
But there's a hint in your response:
I feel all these changes happening just by altering a few activities in my life is giving me more confidence
Why? Because you are seeing results.
So, in summary, when you see results, there is no boredom. When there are no results, you get boredom.
Your feeling is tied to an outcome that you cannot control, leaving you at the whims of chance. But what if you changed the variable to something that you CAN control?
What is that? Your input.
If you know you have to, for example, make 100 calls over the next month to hit your milestone, split that up into 25 calls per week or 5 calls a day.
Make your 5 calls every day, and at the end of the day, look for gratification in the fact that you hit your daily goal, or maybe even exceeded it. Stop measuring achievement on whether those calls were "successful" or not. The law of numbers will naturally play out, and you will adjust and improve your process as you learn. The results will take care of themselves, but you have no control over whether the result will come from call 1 or call 100. If you never get to call 100 because you gave up, you will be stuck in a perpetual rut.
Find a system that makes you feel good -- whether it's checking stuff off at day end, crossing off a list, or telling yourself at the end of the day that you achieved what you set out to do, and over time, that will become your new metric. Your subconscious will start getting the "food" it needs in the form of daily achievement, and you will build momentum.