How do you Motivate youself?

Many ideas here:

http://lifehacker.com/search/motivation/

 

I pretend I am Roger Federer.

 

I tell myself, "My kids need me to do this."

 

"just f*cking do it"

kinda the Nike thing with a kick

 

Imagine yourself as a Maverick fan... now come back to reality, aren't you motivated?.. Maybe this would work if depression was the task at hand.

Seriously though, motivation is a tuff one, best answer is if it can be done while un-motivated then just do it.. you will feel motivated after words.

Personally I always envision my love in my mind and the fact I'd do anything for her and be like "If you really love her then you have to do so-in-so or you don't".. Sounds corny but I always end up doing whatever with 100% effort

 

How do I motivate myself?

I stay away from projects that won't motivate me.

 

I usually start threads asking for advice.

seriously, though, WS&C took my response

 

I imagine myself begging for change on the street. That keeps me working 10 hour days.

 

on a bet back when i was in college i went homeless for 4 days, left my wallet keys and everything in my dorm room and lived out on the streets outside of ucla where they are enough homeless. it was one of the craziest experiences of my life seeing how people treated you (and i knew of little places around the apts to sneak in a nap) during night when it became obvious you were homeless.
i couldnt handle it towards the end of the 2nd day. there was just nothing to do i kept walking back and forth going into stores and walking out and just hungry as heck and asking people for change to buy something and they'd just walk on by.

i just think of that and never want that to be my only option for motivation for day to day stuff


as for a specific project at work or something: i look at my hakeem olajuwon starting lineup figure and say "F-it" sooner i am done with this sh* sooner i can get home and watch old rockets clips or if its during the season sooner i can get home and watch a game.

 

Money over everything and b****es under all

 

desire.

 

if I need a little extra motivation while doing something physically intensive like running in a race or whatever, i use hatred for karl malone.. or remembering great rockets moments

 

To motivate myself to study, I just wait till the last possible second because at that point its either study or fail.

 

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

 

I ask myself "What would Vince Young do?"


or I just go read Fatty's destructive relationship threads...



DD

 

Speed.....may not do what you planned on doing but you'll certainly be motivated to do something

 

the root of all suffering.

 

adderall