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What gets you up in the morning, halflife2.net? What makes you do what you do? I'm having a motivational crisis and I need advice really ASAP like. Only you can help me, life2.net. What's your secret proverbial "cup of joe"?

I actually just googled "getting motivated" and found this hokey list writing thing. Basically I'm supposed to write a list of my top goals and time frame that I want to get them done in. After that, you take your top three and riff in a paragraph about each. I've compiled my list and written the first step to each goal, but I'm beginning to lose motivation to write the paragraph about the top three. Pretty sad.

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What motivates me to get up in the morning? The fact that if i go to school and get it overwith i can come home and sleep even more! I repeat this procedure 5 days a week.
 
Ravioli said:
What motivates me to get up in the morning? The fact that if i go to school and get it overwith i can come home and sleep even more! I repeat this procedure 5 days a week.
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I mean on a more spiritual or "overall" level . What keeps on track with (or keeps you from) your major goals in life?
 
Having a stable and secure future is what motivates me. I dont want to end up living in a dumpster, therefore i value my education and my choices high which will keep me from ending up in such a place. I dont want much from life other than being secure and stable. I dont know if this has anything to do with being motivated, but the fear of ending up being trailer trash is what motivates me to work hard and do good.
 
So you don't really care what you're being educated in? For instance your major, if you're a college student.

I personally am very invested in writing and literature, but as of late I've had a serious motivational problem doing anything but the bare minimum. I get the grades and attend class, but I feel like I should be motivated to do more for myself. I guess that's why I made this post. :o
 
I actually just googled "getting motivated" and found this hokey list writing thing. Basically I'm supposed to write a list of my top goals and time frame that I want to get them done in. After that, you take your top three and riff in a paragraph about each..
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making lists of your goals really works and keeps you from forgetting them. Forget writing a paragraph.. I don't get that..

I actually wrote a list today:

-haircut
-pack up unused books
-kitchen floor
-dishes
-bath room
-laundry

Seems to work better if you go to sleep knowing that you want to get stuff done in the morning. Then you get out of bed and you have a mission. People wake up with a cloudy mind and waste a lot of time, without goals.

I woke up and I got them all done, (except washing the kitchen floor) within a few hours.



As for motivation, my motivations in life always involve things that make me happy. Maybe you need to remind yourself what all this hard work is for - Money, success, etc.
 
Usually, waking up to my dog licking my face. I take him for a walk, feed him, etc. If I can't be with my dog, I basically lose touch with reality. It's like my perception of the world gets twisted.
 
Motivation is short lived. You'll thrive on it like fire feeds on oxygen, you look for it and for a brief moment you're sure to go the distance. But once the night is gone and the sun rises, it fades like the stars.

Drive is all powerful- drive builds you as you build drive, and it carries you to places where motivation cannot. Seek not external devices for such a thing, seek inside. Look inside and hear the dance your heart beats to. Trust in yourself and trust in your path and you will always pick the rhythm up again.
 
So, spear the Queen yadda yadda blah blah **** you because you are ****ing worthless etc for you, basically?
 
Pesmerga said:
Motivation is short lived. You'll thrive on it like fire feeds on oxygen, you look for it and for a brief moment you're sure to go the distance. But once the night is gone and the sun rises, it fades like the stars.

Drive is all powerful- drive builds you as you build drive, and it carries you to places where motivation cannot. Seek not external devices for such a thing, seek inside. Look inside and hear the dance your heart beats to. Trust in yourself and trust in your path and you will always pick the rhythm up again.
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I like this.
 
on any given day a ****ing meteor could squish us.
 
Pretty much that the quicker I finish everything I have to do during the day, that's all the more time for me to slack off.

Plus I go to work for money, so that slacking off time is more enjoyable to me due to me buying games and what-not.

Pretty much - I get up because I have do boring shit, and when that boring shits done, I don't have to do boring shit anymore, and I can do fun shit.
 
Getting up every morning is just routine. I don't need motivation to get up and participate in life.

As for just continuing on and on, I dunno, I just do. I do it day after day. It's what I know.
 
What motivates me when I am motivated, is the fact that I don't want to be stuck in this point of my life forever. It's horrible where I am right now. I've grown weary of the lack of responsibility and lack of independence and lack of money that comes as a result of it.
 
During the weekday school and martial arts usually motivates me. I get up, do all my schooling (I'm home schooled) and then work on perfecting martial arts (I'd like to go to the 2012 Olympics and compete in Tae kwon do). During the weekends I don't want to get up at all and when I do, I rarely get anything accomplished.
 
Others who couldn't motivate themselves to wake up...they died.
So I get up early,with the sunrise.You can never tell what's waiting for you.
 
I usually just think about how awesome I am. This works especially when I need motivation to make something that will make people think I'm even more awesome.
 
I motivated myself to get up this morning by bashing my skull against the floor after I fell out of bed. Someone ****ing kill me.
 
My long term motivation is that I must continue to believe that positive action is possible to make the world a little better.

Also I'd like people to remember me after I die?

EDIT: so basically egomania, and a desire to create an impact, disguised under a sheen of moral posturing!
 
I actually didn't get up this morning. That's why I'm still here.

Shit.
 
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