What motivates you?

[Josh]

Just wondering what motivates some of you other people I mean since most of us are lonely and possibly have no one. What motivates you to continue on and keep going?

This last 6 months has been pretty rough and me and anymore I am losing motivation. I have noticed a slow decline in everything I do and I just don't care anymore

I have nothing that motivates me anymore and I can slowly see my thinking becoming twisted. Anymore the only thing that has brought me any kind of joy is learning and only because I think in some sick way I think that makes me superior to other people by learning more otherwise I can't think of anything in last 6 months that has made me happy.

 

[husky]

nothing.. or the ephemeral beauty of life. sadness & joy. splendor & extasy. bliss.

i die everyday. then the sun rises and wakes me up. if the world doesn't pull me forward, i'll push forward. you can't really be superior, only unique: what's that special thing you can give to this world?

 

[Leon]

I believe husky has a good point: you should give something special to this world. That motivates me: knowing that one day I will be able to do much for the people of the world. Apart from that, my family gives me support all of the time.

And finally there is one of the people I care most for in the world: she is able to kick my butt until I am on track!

 

[Josh]

nothing.. or the ephemeral beauty of life. sadness & joy. splendor & extasy. bliss.

i die everyday. then the sun rises and wakes me up. if the world doesn't pull me forward, i'll push forward. you can't really be superior, only unique: what's that special thing you can give to this world?

hmm I guess I don't get the first part but I think you can be superior it happens all the time you compare two things one is better then the other that makes it superior.

 

[Josh]

I believe husky has a good point: you should give something special to this world. That motivates me: knowing that one day I will be able to do much for the people of the world. Apart from that, my family gives me support all of the time.

And finally there is one of the people I care most for in the world: she is able to kick my butt until I am on track!

My question is why should I do anything specail or good in this world anymore I really just think it is what can I take from this world and how can I be reconized. I have no famliy so wish I had support from there.

 

[Leon]

I believe it is gratifying to do something for someone else. There are many things you can do to be remembered, it is just that the best is for people to recognize that it is thanks to you that they can take a giant leap in progress.

 

[quillini]

I am motivated by my goals. Goals require imagination. I imagine myself today at point A, and I imagine myself in the future at point B. I don't know what I might encounter between now and then, or how I will feel about things once my goal is attained, but it makes no difference. Having a goal, any goal, is an end in itself. My goals give me motivation; each day I direct all my energy in such a way that when I go to bed I am a little closer to my goal than I was when I got up. That is the standard by which I judge my actions. That is my idea of good and evil. That which moves me toward point B is good, that which detracts is evil.

I will expound on this in another post.

 

[Blue Sky]

Yes I am motivated by the goals I set also, it sets me a challenge to complete something. Sometimes the goals are small but sometimes a real challenge. And actually all of the goals I have set myself I have completed, so it works for me.

 

[teach]

Congratulations on completing your goals, Blue. I think the main thing that motivates me, is my daughter. I can imagine the slump I would have been in these last many years if I hadn't had her as a reason to do well. Everyone needs a motivation, either intrinsic or extrinsic.

 

[AaronAgassi]

When you all speak of motivation, I take it that you all only mean some influence to promote action from depressed inertia. But when I think of motivation, I remain cognizant of the meaning of motivation in drama and psychology, even of motive as for committing a crime!

Indeed, consider a good psychological crime drama. Does the perpetrator drag himself all the way to the scheme of the crime, flogging himself every step of the way about how lethargic a crook he has become? Or, indeed, is not any self respecting villain enflamed with passion, one way or another?

If I ask: What is the motivation of a character, I do not seek to know which idiotic self help tapes he listens to!

And real people, however deflated, should never find themselves less dimensioned than adequate fictional characters.

And so, yes, what is your motivation? And how have that motivation been frustrated? Only then can we discuss how to advance the plot, so to speak, and likewise without anything disjointed and contrived.

 

[jjam]

The idea of overall happiness! My vision of it is so sweet, it keeps me motivated and excited to continue, even through thick mists of blue.

 

[Josh]

I guess I just will never be able to understand why you people can be motivated with such "happy thoughts"

Even right now with my new goal of losing weight and getting into better shape the only reason I am doing it so everyone that has told me I would have to settle for a certain thing since I was overweight I couldn't expect a certain thing. I can't wait to tell those fuckers now what, I am smarter more succesful and now I am not overweight. Probaly after that I will tell them they can blow me.

Now thats what motivates me pure rage I pretty much only do things anymore out of spite and just so I can throw it in someones face. People tell me its not a good way to do it well I still have straight A's in pharmacy school (which many people told me I couldn't do) So in around 6 months I should reach my new goal of losing weight I want to.

 

[MisterD]

Money.

As shallow as it can be, money is all i care about right now you can tell me off that money isnt everything. Money gives you happiness to do what you want then youll be happy.

Money= To Travel
Money= To Learn
Money= To Live
Money= To be loved? it can be true
Money= after all this CONTENT
Money= all that is to be happy.

 

[Matt]

^ Yeah, money does help quite a bit. Hate not having any of it. ><

Anyways, what motivates me to keep on going without getting too depressed?

Comedy videos on Youtube. Pathetic, I know, but it works for me. The happiest times of my life for the past few months have been when I've been watching The Daily Show or Family Guy on Youtube. -_-