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vpatrickd
Profile Joined November 2010
Indonesia279 Posts
March 06 2011 06:58 GMT
#21
Just think about the results. Picture the results that you'll get when you actually do it. For example: when you don't want to do your hw, just imagine all the free time you'll have when u're done.
Imagination is everything.
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
March 06 2011 07:05 GMT
#22
Here are some articles that go in depth into some of the techniques already described by other posters:

Setting aside blocks of time:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/

Visualising:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/11/how-to-visualize-your-new-reality/

Transcending the problem:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2010/06/how-to-fall-in-love-with-procrastination/

Hopefully they're useful to you: I found the site, if not those particular articles, very useful for me. Helped bring me out of depression about two years ago.
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
_hate
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Japan112 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-06 08:02:32
March 06 2011 08:00 GMT
#23
When I met a girl I really liked and got to know her, I learned how many shitty guys she's been through. I wanted to be this superstar, all-around guy for her. I can't imagine anyone else, I don't meet a lot of people, can count female friends on my fingers, very antisocial as well. I've quit games for a while now and study ways to better my resume and become desirable. In my free time, I just study or do important extracurriculars.

Right now I'm 18 and prepping for a job interview for Walmart. I got really lucky on this one but the fight's not over. I plan to tell her my feelings in a week or two in person (not same school or city). Not those small guys at the cashier, but a position at Canada's head office.

Might sound pretty disgusting but that's how I got part of my motivation. I just want to be this hardworking guy who gets somewhere and finds happiness.
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i've been somewhat depressed for most of my life even though i'm not supposed to (better off than a lot of people around the world). i get jealous a lot of the times (my mother died when i was 9, it's hard to look at friends' mothers), fantasize a lot about women (never had a girlfriend), and cry a lot
tryummm
Profile Joined August 2009
774 Posts
March 06 2011 08:04 GMT
#24
You have to be doing what you love to do. If you're not emotionally involved with an idea (Meaning its programmed in your subconscious mind) you're not going to be persistent. And if you do force the persistence it either won't last very long or you will become miserable. Find an idea that you would trade your life for, and go after that...not what you think someone else thinks you should do.
denzelz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States604 Posts
March 06 2011 08:12 GMT
#25
For me, it's to get the right amount of sleep every night. When I don't sleep right, I don't eat right and then everything else just falls apart from there.
buickskylark
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada664 Posts
March 06 2011 20:51 GMT
#26
On March 06 2011 12:39 Azerbaijan wrote:
Read this -
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For me it helped motivate me to start running and stick with it; I think you will find you are able to keep up on something like that it becomes easier to be motivated and proactive about many other things in life.


can you give some more info. about the book? Why it resonated with you?
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