Motivation

Some time in life, I bet you wanted to say, or actually said, "FUCK THIS. I GIVE UP!"

This has been happening to me recently because of education and other types of conflicts.

My motivation easily "runs out" and I tend to say this a lot.

So I'm asking you: How do you stay motivated and keep your perseverance when doing what your doing? Ex: Translating/Editing Manga, School work, Anything

I am very misanthropic, so my motivation comes oddly enough from a negative place: "how much worse could it actually get?" and I enjoy seeing the outcome of this. I suppose you could call me gleefully sadistic or warped, which I wouldn't disagree. I've long since given up hope on my species and like watching us circle the drain faster and faster... it's kind of entertaining actually. Yeah, I've been watching "Life After People" again.

For school work, my motivation is "I want to succeed"

I ussaully say to myself "Ninjas dont give up" and so I keep on going

When I'm doing sports, I'm just a competitive guy. When a guy scores on me in basketball, I naturally want to score on him or block the s&%^ out of him the next time he drives on me. Even when I'm training, I just try to push myself as I know training will help me improve. As Rock Lee put it best, "better than the me of yesterday".

In school, usually it's because people see me as the jock that just sleeps in class. They think I'm a dumb ass, so I surprise them and I cram everything in in one night, get 80-90% on most of my tests. Their faces when they see how high my average is compared to them and how much work they put into school is priceless. That's what drives me.

Pretty much all in my attitude and mentality I guess. I was a fat kid before, people laughed at me, I lost the weight and just started lifting weights and playing sports.

I love people who doubt me, and hate on me. It's just motivation to add to the fire.

I remember where I grew up. I never want to be in that situation again.

i hate goin to college... UC-somethin... anyway when i wake up, i hate goin to school but i know my adorable girl is waiting for me at school... (*> - <*) she's soo cute... i love her soooo much

My girl is really smart so i have to get my grades up or i'm scared she'll... well....yeah...

i do all my work knowing i'll see her XD

srry i guess i went overboard...bragging... we've been together for years now :P
anyhoo my point is my girlfriend is my motivation. Love keeps me alive. You should try it too

I keep telling myself that if I don't study hard my mom will get mad at me. You never want to see my mom mad.

I think my motivation comes from seeing others do so much better than me...It's a bit petty, I know, but it really does get frustrating seeing others get more buck for less bang. However, that's countered by my laziness and easygoing attitude, so I have to force myself to do what's necessary (and sometimes unnecessary) and suffer through the consequences later.

1.Read motivational posters on Photobucket.( the funny yet motivating ones )

2.Watch a very funny film.( I suggest this https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?p=1275389&highlight=#1275389 )

3.Do things that interest you for a while then get back to work later.( All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. )

That's about all the things I do to get motivated.Hope It works fo' ya!!

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Tough question. I usually give up in most things, especially if they're difficult. Otherwise, I'm just lazy.

If it's school-work, I just think that I shouldn't fail and that's that. Not really much of a motivator, but it helps for damage-control, if you know what I mean.

Besides, if you really like doing something, you have all the motivation in the world. It's when you hate what you're doing that you should be worrying.
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I get the same way a lot.
One of my motivators is looking back and seeing how far I've come already. If I consider my accomplishments, it sometimes helps.
Also, I remind myself that no matter how awful my homework/life/etc seems, I have it really good and I need to make the best of it.

I tend to get lazy a lot, but if I wanted to keep myself going, I try to picture myself at a boring dead-end job as well as living in a tiny apartment as a spinster for the rest of my life due to all the times I gave up on doing the best I can...

Yeah, that helps me put more effort into my work, all just for the desperate hope that I don't end up like that.

1. Take 5 minutes to rage/mope over the things that have been putting me down.
2. Work out to relieve the stress.
3. Write down my goals in raging red permanent marker with lots of exclamation points.
4. Put on some hype music...
5. GO!!!

To keep that going, I ask myself this before sleeping: Did you do everything you could today to be at your very best?

Good luck man, hope things start looking up for ya.

1 - More you think i cant do it, more hard i going to try
2 - Take a break, reading, writing, listening music. And the back with all my KI!
3 - Try to climp higher every time i can

Working - my discount motivates me. Also, I don't want to be too much of a burden at home.

Editing doujinshi - keep LD at bay (He puts on his mad face when Ring x Mama isn't worked on [<3 you LD])
But for real, that's really my hobby. It's my downtime from everything else I have to do.

School - so I'm not working this hard 30 years from now for a lousy amount of money.
I'd rather struggle now and get it over with now and end up with a better job/paycheck/lifestyle later on in life.

To be honest, I think motivation, or perhaps I should say, the WillPower to succeed, to fight on, to finish thing's, can only ever come from within ourselves.

Sure, we can get advice or picked up when we fall down by other's, perhaps a friend, maybe family, or possibly a complete stranger. But, those are only temporary, relying on others occassionally is perfectly fine, but true motivation, true strength, is only ever truly longlasting when it comes from within.

The reason could be anything, from a grand ambition of worldy proportions, to the most insignificant little thing you could imagine. These thing's dont have to be set in stone, ideals and motivations change as we age and achieve. In the end, it is these things that give us what it is we need to stand up, to fight back, and to persevere. No matter the difficulty we face.

This, is one of humanities noblest ideals, and one that personally allows me to still have faith that there yet remains good in this world. As for myself, my motivation is, and in my heart shall forever be, to bring about the happiness of she whom I love. No matter the personal cost.

If everything is easy and given, then life is uninteresting, at least for me. I enjoy being challenged, which motivates me to learn new things and improve skills. If I encounter a new piece of music I can't play, I am motivated to improve my skill so that I can play it. I also find learning new things to be interesting. Of course, both those motivations are strongest when concerning subjects which I am interested in.

I genuinely dislike sitting around all the time doing nothing. It gets very boring very fast.

College life -
To keep me stay motivated , i always take things funny ... or at least , i just describe my life as a game ... when i failed , i still can hit continue
I will really Game Over if i die ..

Or,

you can always thinking what is your purpose or what you aimed,
example :
I go to college and study because i want to make my parent proud , and i don't want to waste their money ..
it always give me warning when i am depressed time by time,
knowing how lucky i am .. still have parent .. and i have no intention to let their trust away ..

Im not a very motivated person to begin with. in school i just want to play my games or have fun and in things i like i just want to know the most about that thing so i can talk to people about them.