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What motivates you?

Motivation takes the form of many things: quest for wealth, fame, etc. So my question to you is what is/are your personal motivator(s)?

Topics: Dreams and reality curiousity goals hopes and dreams motivation
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    Tabor Williams

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    Oct 20 2012: Love is what motivates me. I believe that underneath it all the world is good, and people are good. I'm just looking for someone to share my life with, but the world is a large and fascinating place and there are literally billions of people I haven't met and don't know. So just spreading my love and being a good person is what motivates me.
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    Vincenzo Sergi

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    Oct 20 2012: Life is short. That motivates me. So many experiences to be had in such a short period of time. A definite motivator for me.

  • Xiaoying Liu

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    Oct 20 2012: The fear.When I was feel down and not confidence , I fear I will be defeated . Fear is not a good thing ,so I tell myself face it and solve it.Though fear is not a good thing , it still motivates me
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    Ziska Childs 50+

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    Oct 19 2012: Dogs. They get up around 4:30 am- except during daylight savings time when they get up at 3:30 am. Oh yeah, and that pursuit of excellence conceptual banter sharing of ideas quest for beauty thing...
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    Tohru Numano

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    Oct 19 2012: How to motivate myself is to recognize my whole tasks.

    I am now in America. I just came here 2weeks ago.Before I came here, I was very motivated for this travel,but now, I feel I am stuck in a rut already.
    why? The most important thing is that I had a lot of tasks recently, especially around 2months before.
    I was excited to go to America and there were of course a lot of tasks I had, for instance buying some stuff for travel, contacting to workplace and apartment, writing some documents to get Visa. blah blah blah...
    After arrived at America, I had to meet my boss and prepare to start my program, and taking orientations and so on.
    It was very busy for me, but I was very excited, so I had high motivation then and I thought that if I finish whole daily tasks quickly, I can do my main work more easier than having a lot of tasks.

    But, truth be told, I am stuck in a rut nowadays, I've already finished a lot of small tasks, so now I just have to do my main work I really wanted in japan.

    I tried to find out why my motivation for that is decreased.

    then I figure out, solution is adding any tasks.
    so I add new purpose and tasks which I can achive but these are difficult.
    then my motivation came back to me.

    Now I was really motivated like a one who just starts new challenge.
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    Anisha Shafie

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    Oct 19 2012: just want to share this with you guys,in my religion the ultimate purpose of life to become a leader on Earth and servant to God.When i feel down ill get closer to my Creator,remind myself of the main reason why im here in this world...my religion is all about positive things,and i didnt found anything negative about it,to me,that is the real motivation because i can feel it in my heart,ive tried other forms of motivation,but i cant really feel it....so,religion motivates me.... ^^

  • Gross Ryder

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    Oct 19 2012: Mind blowing exploratory adventure.
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    Mauro Rodrigues

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    Oct 19 2012: Whatever gives me the rush of accomplishment and the feeling of showing how I got away of the "dark clouds" to those that pushed me down through the years!

    Well, basically what motivated Rocky in their movies ehehehe
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    Dickvin Wong

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    Oct 19 2012: My born mission to make our world a difference, towards a better one.

  • Sebastian Guerraty

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    Oct 19 2012: Searching for happiness and making other people happy. An occasional good result in school and friends is always nice

  • Jonathan Marschall

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    Oct 17 2012: Rational thinking, motivates me along with, positive thinking, respectful people, peace and love.

    The breakthroughs in science and medicine such as the possibility that Aids can be cured with Ozone.

    Watch the video called Ozone In Politics.

    The fact is te Aids virus cannot live in a oxygen environment, so if you put the virus in contact with oxygen it dies.

  • kin sun

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    Oct 16 2012: everyone has troubles regardless of you are ordinary or great.in the past 5 years ,i learned that what matters most is you are enjoying every moment of your life which is filled with happiensss and misery,ups and downs.
    i do not envy or even jealousy the man who is rich or famous.of course if i get an opportunity to be one of them ,i would seize it for another different life style.
    nearly the end of life,everyone will be orindary and there is no exception.everyone is unique though tiny,however,sometimes you do not really know that you are changing the world in a special way.
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    Susan Townsend

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    Oct 13 2012: Oh my goodness there are so many things that motivates me! I have dreams, goals, desires, love ones and people and place to see. Books to read, trips to go on. A life to live! all of it motivates me to do what I do. I do think however the thing that makes me be so motivated is the positive spirit I have. I see every thing as a go. I am 55, divorced and my children are now grown. Some of the things I did not do because of them I can do now. I just joined a network- marketing company. why ? for money yes and no. if there was no money and I could explore the world, like I want to do and have time to play in my garden when and where I want. Read all the books, meet all the people, share thoughts and likes and wants. Help someone else see the possibilities in the world and in self. I still think I would be happier. It is a way of life that I seek. That at this point in time is my motivator. My day time job is boring restrictive, and time consuming. and it is just not the place I want to be at this point in my life. I am a creative person and that job just does not do it for me. but really it is my positive thoughts that motivate me. Smile.

  • Terry Haynes

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    Oct 12 2012: Answers is what motivates me. I have been asking questions since I was a child. Like why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? I know now why and a lot more by simply asking questions and seeking answers. I question everything for I do not know it all, but I am open minded and willing to learn.
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    Bill Matthies

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    Oct 11 2012: A desire to see what I can do.

    I can't be perfect, no one can, so I'm left with the challenge to see how much of what I can accomplish in whatever time remains to me. It's not only about doing "good" whatever that is. I will do "bad" as well and enjoy doing some of it. It's more about seeing what I can create or destroy as opposed to simply existing.
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    Thomas Hawkins

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    Oct 11 2012: knowing that I have not fulfilled my potential...

  • So-hyun Kim

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    Oct 11 2012: Death; I don't want to regret even before the moment I die.
    It's a great motivator, makes me live today like the last moment, the most special day, in my life.
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    Luis Javier Salvador 30+

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    Oct 11 2012: Sure death. The thought that I will surely die one day motivates me to do meaningful things while I'm still alive. Otherwise, I think I would procrastinate too much.
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    Steven Hsieh

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    Oct 11 2012: Pretty girls

  • Cian Murphy

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    Oct 11 2012: The fear of looking back on my life and regretting

  • JEFF D.

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    Oct 11 2012: myself. past accomplishments. my Will Power. sometimes i take things as challenges not obstacles. and lastly the life i'm currently living, motivates me. actual dreams and motives.
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    p s

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    Oct 10 2012: Primarily breakfast, eleven's, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, then I fit in what I can in between these fundamental motivators.

  • Robert Nieto

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    Oct 10 2012: What good is a life that leaves nothing behind?

    Not a thought or a dream to pass on to our children and our children's children?

    We live in a world that is still engulfed in war, starvation, poverty and hate.

    Is that really what you want to pass on to the children of the future?
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    devesh golchha

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    Oct 10 2012: the idea of being reckoned and praised for work motivates me,and to go beyond my standards.
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    chen xin

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    Oct 10 2012: what motivate me is my goal to have a much better life .
    and have a happy family and what motives me is my thought to do what i can to achive something
    and the heart to have more kindness and have a pleasure of finding something .what motives me is freedom to see more and more people can have a good life .that is my motivition,

    • So-hyun Kim

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      Oct 10 2012: That's the very first thing on my list-to-do-before-I-die!
      I'd love to learn how to live and that urge always motivates me actually work towards it :)
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        chen xin

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        Oct 11 2012: i am sorry to have deleted it .because i think there is a comfortless word .death . you know we chinese dont know talk about death much .i am sorry again .
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          Susan Townsend

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          Oct 13 2012: hum I don't think on death as well, it is an unknown factor. and I don't think about it til it is here. so for right now I think of all the living to do, I don't want to say that I never tried to do something. there are just too many things to do. and I don't want to sit on the couch and watch tv all day! I want to taste it feel it and share the greatness of what can be. life is not over til it is over. and if we have thought at that time, I think I will have wonderful thoughts of the life I had.

  • Kaycee Asuncion

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    Oct 10 2012: my internal fuel is God, my external one is Strive for significance. The latter is the effect of the first fuel.
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    Sabina Varga

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    Oct 10 2012: The avoidance of pain or the gain of pleasure :).

  • Rashmi Bhat

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    Oct 9 2012: Dreaming about achieving goal motivates me and drives me to actually work towards it.

  • Priyanka Gupta

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    Oct 6 2012: Thought of making People Happy. It brings lots of satisfaction to see the smile on someone's face and knowing that I am the reason behind that.

  • Tamara Tipton

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    Oct 6 2012: faith motivates me. Mine and others. I have a friend who is fighting cancer and her faith in God, her absolute conviction that whatever happens today is in God's hands give me so much courage. I look at single parents who are surviving wholly on faith that it will be okay. Maybe not today, but someday. When I see that kind of faith, courage, and strength, it strengthens me and motivates me to stretch my faith and believe for things that seem impossible.
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