RE: what keeps you going?
if your not doing any good, and your finding it hard to get outta bed or easier to sit on the couch than go hunting, you gotta make hunting interesting. start watching the squirrels and birds...enjoy the landscape and other various critters. dont let that sun rise or set and you not even noticing...take a camera and take pics of the landscape, the critters, whatever...take binocs and scan...take a nap...make yourself comfortable, dress comfortably, and take food and drinks for long hunts and make it enjoyable. i do all of the above and dont have a problem with anything "keeping me going"
i got "burned out" turkey hunting one year...why? i wasnt enjoying everything there was to be enjoyed...i was simply out there hunting a particular turkey i had my sights set on and was out there to kill that bird. wasnt until the last day i realize how much i learned that season and how many awesome sights and sounds i got to enjoy that season...wasnt hard to get outta bed to go hunt that bird dang near daily, but i definently was ready for it to end, one way or another and was frustrated and not enjoying it...i found out why i wasnt...
good luck....keep your hat up....only takes a second to change your season....dont forget it.
i just think about the millions of people out there that are going to be SLEEPING while that awesome sun rises and the woods awaken that morning...i love when the woods wake up...