So much has been said about motivation. The differentiation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. That people are guided by 3 universal desires, namely power, achievement and affiliation. That adolescents feel a fire š„ burning in their souls when they acknowledge that an assigned task is important and feel confident to tackle it.
If we donāt get our minds bogged down by the above theories, how does motivation play out in your life though? I think motivation is intertwined with our self-identity.
Take my wife for instance. She feels compelled to provide home-cooked meals for her family. This has led to the consolidation of an infallible routine in our lives. Every Saturday, we go grocery shopping, and every Sunday, she spends the entire day whipping up one weekās worth of dishes. In case you are wondering, she then stores the food in admittedly nice-looking Tupperware containers in our fridge. She has a workhorse-like ethics when it comes to this. Very indefatigable.
As for me, I want to make it as a freelance writer. Carving out a distinctive space other than my identities as a teacher and a parent. So, for the past three months, I have been posting consistently on my blog. As you may know, Google Adsense pays peanuts, but nonetheless, I am determined to go through the grind because I attribute profound meaning to this struggle. Last month, I managed to rake in more than two dollars for my blog. Looking forward to beating my personal best this month.
How about you? What keeps you going? Do you need midpoint or milestone checks to recenter yourself and keep going? Or do you wake up every morning, just raring to go like an Energiser Bunny?
Pray tell, where is your fountain of motivation?
Gonna end this with my favourite Japanese proverb: āē¶ē¶ćÆåćŖćā (Keizoku ha chikara nari). In English, we say ācontinuance is strengthā.
Rock bottom for me I went there before and never want to go back
Itās always good to recognise our limits
Tbh I would do it all over again to get to this point in my life. Humbled me to a level I'll never forget to the point where I can always look back when I'm feeling too prideful and be reminded where it all can go...God works in mysterious ways had that never happened I'd probably still be lost...no purpose...a foater...
Iām basically motivated by my own interests, as well as the needs of my friends and family.
The chances of me doing something Iām not interested in, without someone I care about asking, are slim to none.
How about in the context of work?
How likely are you to say yes to a task that doesnāt excite or even interest you so that you can pull your weight as a team player/ preserve work harmony etc?
This is kind of funny. I agree to work on pretty much anything, but my effort is entirely dependent on how interested I am or how much I like the other people on the project.
The result is a pretty substantial backlog of stuff I havenāt gotten around to.
You must wield considerable influence if you can take your time wrt deadlines n not be questioned about accountability haha
There is no doubt, continuance is strength. In hindi ą¤ą¤°ą¤¤-ą¤ą¤°ą¤¤ ą¤ ą¤ą„ą¤Æą¤¾ą¤ø ą¤ą„ ą¤ą¤”ą¤®ą¤¤ą¤æ ą¤¹ą„ą¤¤ ą¤øą„ą¤ą¤¾ą¤Ø ą„¤ ą¤°ą¤øą¤°ą„ ą¤ą¤µą¤¤-ą¤ą¤¾ą¤¤ ą¤¤ą„ ą¤øą¤æą¤² ą¤Ŗą¤° ą¤Ŗą¤°ą¤¤ ą¤Øą¤æą¤¶ą¤¾ą¤Ø ą„„ ā
It means Marks are formed on the stone of the well due to the repeated rubbing ith rope, with the same continuous practice even the weak minded can become intelligent.
Lovely! Thanks for sharing this with me.
It never ceases to amaze me how the same wisdom can be found across diverse cultures xP
The origin of the entire world is one.
Wah you are dropping gems of wisdom
She's worth her weight in gold, well done sensei.
I know personally a dude who's making a nice extra on Nostr almost just out of twitting. Your content being more developed would do better I'm sure. What keeps you away from Nostr? Your notes on kanjis would be very, very well received there I'm sure, I strongly advice you to try that.
Living in economic and political crisis my entire life (and counting) did help me to get my priorities straight and without question: I just want to make it. Get enough money to live, doing literally whatever that's not illegal. Then, once having the money, gradually proceed to fuel my other passions.
So, I don't seek for my passions to be the source of the money themselves, I see it the other way around: just getting to the point in which you have a work that you don't hate (not that "you love", just "don't hate"), which leaves you enough money and time to do other things you love up to a minimally fulfilling degree, is absolute perfection to me.
Having a full and high level engineering background, the first job I was able to get here in Argentina was to clean floors at a factory. It took me 6 months of relentless, distressing and endless searching just to be able land that job. It was so difficult, so protracted, that when I got it I just felt happy, like if a spell had finally been broken.
My dream was to be on the engineering department, yet now I was outside of it cleaning the floors. At that point I didn't care anymore, I just happily took the broom and made my best. Shifts where of 12hs, from Monday to Monday. No off days. With that on my portfolio I was able to land my next job as an assistant of the design engineer, this time on the engineering office, because I was able to demonstrate that I had both the engineering knowledge and the work ethics and endurance. Shifts where better: 10-11hs, from Monday to Saturday. With that I was able to land the next job as a design engineer myself. Shifts where better than ever: 9hs, from Monday to Friday. Started to get the money and the time to do other things. Then the crisis started to worsen and conditions deteriorated, and I had to start to devote more to the political struggle rather than work. 4 years later I'm starting over back again, and back again my priorities are: first, make it, second, try to make it with something you don't hate, third, try to get enough money and time from it to do whatever you do love = perfection.
great story, I admire your grit!
Thank you buddy :)
Believe me, we are all alike. I learned from the experiences of others all along, would have done a lot worse otherwise. Making other people's experiences your own, which feels like having lived many lives, is a powerful ability.
I get it from my father!
He's managing of extraordinary talent when it comes to changing negativity to positivity.
Sounds like a great guy to be around with
There is a point in our life where the sources of motivation change. In my case, when I was younger, I made my fundamental motivation to achieve a professional dream that when I think about it was my parents' dream. It's not that I don't like my profession, but I was so grateful to my parents that I allowed their dream to be mine.
Later, I found my motivation in the family I formed, the responsibility of fulfilling my responsibility as a father and head, even today I feel the same responsibility even though my children are already married and one of them has his son, my grandson, now another source of motivation.
But in recent times I really got to know, I had heard about it before, an asset that has stolen from me, BITCOIN, today it motivates me to a degree that I have gone back to reading as I did before, I study a lot, I investigate, at this point Stacker News has helped me a lot and motivates me even more. I am actually at a point where I can say I am happily MOTIVATED.
I love my family, I adore my profession, but with Bitcoin I see that everything is possible. Moving forward with my family and continuing with my profession. It gives me hope in a world where the opposite abounds: hopelessness and demotivation.
I like how you express that Bitcoin is the icing on the cake, the enabler to what is already a meaningful life xP
Seeing my unbelievably cute 6 months old daughter first thing every morning when I wake up is all the motivation I would ever need to move mountains every single day of my remaining life.
Enjoy her before she turns 1 and runs around everywhere! Haha
I'm retired. Wherever she runs, I will run, too. Actually can't wait for that milestone.
Survival.
Then revenge!
Next is perhaps spending Bitcoin to stay in a cave in the Himalayas for a while, completely offline ;-) Not even a joke, I'll bloody do it!
@Coinsreporter will gladly meet you there, I think
Oh cool! I finally made it back to Nepal this spring, after 29 years away from that home..... Planning to get back within weeks now, might add India too, all depending on geopolitics & Bitcoin haha
Thanks for the mention!
If he asks me I'm more than happy to suggest him many places.
In fact! I've spent half of my life around the mighty Himalyas.
I see I answered the wrong post, but hopefully we'll all make it there!? :-)
This thread might get messed up, but I'd be happy try meet up with anyone in Kathmandu at least!
Also got a lead on business visa with company, bank account and work permit, but if act on that or not is impossible to say before I've checked it out on the ground...
Whenever I'm feeling out of sorts, I turn to some peaceful music and it has always worked for me!
Upbeat music always shifts the mood!
I feel more motivated when I'm the busiest. When I'm lazy, I'm sometimes even depressed for nothing
I get what you mean! Momentum is everything
I like how you focus on not being greedy xP
Primary motivation for stacking is survival for myself and that of my family, including some extended family members. I look at bitcoin as the modern day biblical Ark. I don't know if it was Greg Foss or Lawrence Leopard who said this, but in one of these bitcoin podcasts, one of them said, "There's no top to bitcoin, because there's no bottom to fiat." So, stack away.
That said, will I treat myself to some luxuries if my stack comfortably affords them to me? Absolutely. ;)
whenever iām contributing towards building the future that encompasses the new system that makes the old one obsolete, iām vibrating high and my motivation starts peaking
Thatās something about value creation, isnāt it? What projects are you working on?
Family
Plain n simple. I like
I am a teacher. I feel motivated when my students bring better results
I know your feeling!
Have you read Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl?
@carlosfandango wrote a piece about it
I read his review, not the actual book (yet).
Has it been a pivotal book for you?
yes!
I read it whenever I feel lost
I look forward pauses with life to be recharged again!
I can be listening to a song, a walk may be, a drive, a shower in the rain, a little reading from a book, meditation, watching a little comedy, talking to my family and so on.
I mean it can be anything. Any of my 5 senses can stem motivation for me. I'm not just fixed to one thing.
Sounds like you have many doses of fun throughout the day
Motivation can be very complicated.
What motivates one will just turn off others. Thatās the tricky part I think. We all have a special key
I want to be the best person I can be! I definitely think I am more extrinsically motivated than intrinsically motivated. I know some people that are very successful and they motivate me to be my best self :)
You are reminding me to go play your YouTube video right now haha