How do you find motivation in life?

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1. Setting short term goals helped me a lot. I would set long term goals and they’d get scary, and I’d get discouraged when I hadn’t seen meaningful progress towards them in a couple days. Aiming for a certain career or milestone is great, but set something in the short term just to remind yourself you’re making progress. Stick to a diet, quit a vice for a couple days, something easy, just to give yourself that feeling that you succeeded at something today.

2. Motivation accounts only a little bit of things in my life. Most of it comes from sheer discipline and commitment.

3. Fear of becoming poor

4. Lots of hobbies, it leads to a lot of preorders and upcoming events, which means I always have something to look forward to, that’s how I get through the tough days

5. I have found that homelessness and starvation are pretty powerful motivators.

   I was in Afghanistan years ago and I saw what it really means to have nothing.

6. Sometimes you don’t.

7. You just keep going, you find stuff to look forward to and set short-term goals.

   I currently live in the worst HMO I’ve ever been in, but me and a mate (both of us have no interest in romantic relationships) are planning on moving out and getting a house together. I keep telling myself it’s just a “little bit longer to survive”.

   Just a little bit longer and then I’ll have more space, company and someone to cook for again.