Motivation and Focus

[Randy]

What motivates you to get things done? How do you stay focused?

 

[McConnaughay]

The fact that I have achieved something and also to watch things grow for example I run an S-federation of sorts at which written shows are put together, it motivates me knowing that new pieces of history will be made and the number will grow.

 

[Nebulous]

Well my daughter is one... If I didn't have her, I would probably feel like I wouldn't have any reason to wake up in the morning... She's the reason I left my crappy retail job and looked for a better paying job. I wanted to be able to have my own place and give her a room. Instead of her sharing a room with me while having roommates.

 

[Payton]

My motivations include music, my family, friends, and proverbs or sayings I like.

What keeps me focused... it's hard for me to stay focused so I don't know. :3

 

[Xarina]

Personally I'm just stubborn. I always get the important things done no matter what. Then I nag at those that still has things to finish.

 

[Mini Maul]

I find it really hard to stay focused and to get things done, especially when its uni work, which is very important.

I think motivation is an important one, maybe getting a smaller reward after is a nice way to get things done, but i tend to rush things when i try to motivate myself this way.



I think if you like the thing you are trying to do enough, you dont need to re-motivated because you enjoy the thing you are trying to do, wether its challenging or simply rehearsal, if you enjoy it, its more likely to work and go in, and most importantly, you will remember how you did it.

 

[Fayble]

What motivates you to do the best you can. To be the best you can be. To strive for perfection...? Well, I know a couple of things that help me do all of that.



Motivation and determination in my opinion go hand in hand with one another. Haha for instance I am determined to get motivated at times and I am motivated to be determined at others.



I have an example of each. I am determined to get motivated when it comes to school, because, well face it. No one enjoys school really. Especially the way they teach it now-a-days... All school does is prepare you for a big Standardized Test that in essence determines the rest of your life. There are exceptions where teachers might teach a valuable lesson or two, but most of them are told what to teach. And to follow a certain curriculum. I wish school was more about life lessons then the F-Cat or whatever standardized test your state requires you to take.



My next example is how and why I am determined to get motivated. Well, I am big on working out and lifting heavy weights. And you know of course, without motivation it's really hard to reach your goal or set weight. If I'm not feeling it that day, or in other words, if I'm not motivated then I get lazy and waste the entire time I was suppose to be working out and end up leaving early. That's not me. Well it is sometimes haha.



Share some of your ways to get motivated here. Whether it be speeches, videos, music, whatever it is. Tell us here. In this topic.





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Anyways, here are some videos that motivate me and make me hungry or determined when it comes to life. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.



-- Protect your dreams ~ Persuit of Happyness



Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream? You've got to protect it. If people can't do something themselves. They want to tell you you cant do it. If you want something go get it. Period.



-- Look me in the eyes ~ Become Legendary, Michael Jordan



Look me in the eyes. It's OK if you're scared. So am I. But for different reasons. I'm scared of what I won't become. And you're scared of what I could become. I know what is within me. Even if you can't see it yet. I have something more important than courage. I have patience. I will become what I know I am.



-- Death on Wings ~ Baltimore Ravens



-- I'm putting my heart in this shit man. ~ Ed Reed, Baltimore Ravens





I'm hurt dawg. Don't ask me if I'm alright. Hell no! What he said dominates. And we not doin it. I'm putting my heart in this shit dawg. Lets go!



We in the house of the champs! and anytime you come to the house of the champs. You come take what they got!



-- Any Given Sunday



Life is a game of inches. Because in either game, in life or football, the margin of error is so small. I mean. One half a step too late. Or too early. And you don't quite make it. One half a second too slow. Too fast. You don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. There in every break of the game. Every minute. Every second. On this team we fight for that inch! On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch! We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know. When we add up all those inches. That's gunna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dieing!







Movies



-- Remember the titans

-- The Express

-- Pursuit of Happyness

-- Invincible

-- Any given Sunday

 

[Nebulous]

Merged. Nice post Karrit.

 

[Fayble]

Haha, my bad didn't see it. Well, guess i'll get to reading others replies haha