The brain - or better,  the central nervous system - is a clever/tricky/inventive bastard of an organ. Compensatory strategies abound. Neural plasticity. You rehearse your schedule before the day begins. You try to recall the names of important colleagues and friends before entering a room. You tutor yourself to speak in simpler sentences, using simpler, more familiar words. You don't let the impulse to express an abstraction get ahead of the words in your arsenal. And to no one do you confess the largest obstacle you face: that increasingly, every act requires an extra exertion of the will, a pre-command to Act! Raising a fork to the lips. No.

Desire into action through will.

First you conceive, perhaps in desire or appetite, the need to raise the fork to the lips. Then you fight the gravity of the physical task awaiting you. Then you will your thoughts to coagulate around the intention to raise the fork to the lips. Nearly fatigued now, and definitely hungry, you may despair. You may look at your hand, as it grasps the fork, trying to command it telekinetically to rise. This having failed, you punch through the mental barrier and force the signal through to the hand.

Then you eat.