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Motivation in any actions.

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TheQuiff
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Scotland91 Posts
February 26 2013 09:04 GMT
#1
Hello, I've created this blog on motivation.

I understand there are alot of blogs about motivation, they all mainly delve into one issue, for example Building muscle, keeping fit, SC2, trying to achieve some goal.

I would like people to post there motivation for anything, even getting up in the morning to go to work. Something so simple but may have a great motivation.

So i would like to hear people motivations in life.

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I'm Scottish, I'm not that scary
Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
February 26 2013 10:00 GMT
#2
I keep getting up every morning because some days are pretty good, and the alternative would suck!

Next...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Zhazulo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Sweden226 Posts
February 26 2013 11:30 GMT
#3
May sound as a boring answer, but I've have found goal setting to be really, really efficient when it comes "creating" motivation. I highly recommend anyone having difficulties with "getting things done" to try it out.

The thing is about goal setting (and planning in general) is that there is a huge range of how much you can do, and it will still work to a certain degree.

I usually plan the amount of school work I am going to do over the next week. I also plan when and where I am going to do what, which for some people can seem quite excessive and be intimidating when doing their own planning/goal setting. But that's just it, you don't have to plan as much as the other person to achieve some sort of efficiency, you just have to find your own amount of goals which work for you!

It can be everything from saying "Today I'm going to do XYZ!" to a detailed schedule of a week. But I do think that have something just written down our said out loud is the most important step, to create some sort of realization of the goal.

In the end, just my two cents, something I have found to work for me personally
32
Profile Joined February 2010
United States163 Posts
February 26 2013 12:11 GMT
#4
If I need motivation to do something school related, I just realize that some things cannot be without the rest. If I were not happy with the way my life was, I wouldn't do any long term planning at all. I don't set goals for motivation, because I don't want my motivation to be fabricated. I set few limitations on myself to prevent everything from feeling irrelevant and contrived. So far it's working adequately, perhaps I will not have the luxury in the future. Things would have to get somewhat desperate before I would change.
WikidSik
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada382 Posts
February 26 2013 17:35 GMT
#5
one thing I have noticed is that your goal should just be to do something, instead of achieving some status or benchmark. For example, if you wanna "keep fit" (a qualitative benchmark), your goal should be to run 3 times a week for 1 hour.
Iv been here for 5.5 years. My other accounts are named "Sonu" and "Dalroti" || I had some more but I cant find them XD || known in sc2 as "Sonu"
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-27 04:17:57
February 27 2013 02:59 GMT
#6
I don't think I have any big motivators. Especially on days I don't feel like working.

I think for some reason being able to look forward to events in the future has motivated me. Sometimes. Depends on the friends I'd go with.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28815 Posts
February 27 2013 03:48 GMT
#7
if you have to do it you have to do it
otherwise it doesnt matter
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run.at.me
Profile Joined December 2011
Australia550 Posts
February 27 2013 03:53 GMT
#8
Eh, just started to exercise again... Motivation was not doing exercise. If you wanna do it, you will. If you don't do it, you didn't want to do it bad enough
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
February 28 2013 03:39 GMT
#9
I am finding intrinsic goals to be motivated towards like family, mastery, and helping people instead of extrinsic ones like money, status, or power. I've chased the extrinsic goals before. It doesn't work for me and I don't think they're helpful. You can still keep things like making money in mind of course, but they're not what I stress anymore. I think it's detrimental to being happy, they're not rewarding, and it's unhealthy for me.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
ihOpe
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
192 Posts
February 28 2013 05:03 GMT
#10
fight for what you believe in! If you don't believe in what you are doing, it becomes a lot harder to get it done
terran hots stream ---> http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/iheartEDM
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