What motivates you?

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27 Mar 2011, 7:18 pm

What gets you out of bed in the morning, keeps you going to school/work/etc, keeps you doing something besides laying there wasting away?

For me it's a drive to improve myself and to make myself a better soldier.

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27 Mar 2011, 7:19 pm

Getting healthy enough to go home and spend time with the woman I love.

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27 Mar 2011, 7:35 pm

A mixture of interest and suffering (my quest to be without it and help others do the same).

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27 Mar 2011, 7:37 pm

It could be something fun that I'm anticipating that day. Or, it could just be coffee.

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27 Mar 2011, 7:39 pm

Nothing really. I guess to do things that interest me. But I've long been in the tunnel of Failure in Life, and it's too late to turn back now.

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27 Mar 2011, 7:42 pm

Descartes wrote:

Or, it could just be coffee.

Some days coffee is the only reason I get out of bed.

Survival is really what motivates me. If I don't work, I don't get paid. If I don't have money, I can't pay bills. If I don't pay bills, I'll end up on the street. And I'm far too pathetic to live on the street. I wish I had some other motivation.

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27 Mar 2011, 7:46 pm

Friends.

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27 Mar 2011, 8:31 pm

Work, music, family and friends.

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27 Mar 2011, 10:37 pm

My 2 children.

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27 Mar 2011, 11:49 pm

If I was working I would say the drive to be more independent & self-sufficient but sense I'm not working lots of people especially my family say I am wasting away. What keeps me going in life is that I know if I were to die now; the world would of been a worse place because of me. I'm trying to find people online who I can connect with & use my past experiences to help out & perhaps it can lead to a loving relationship but I'm NOT expecting that to happen. I'm aloso motivated by my special interest; music, TV ect

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27 Mar 2011, 11:58 pm

Zen wrote:

Descartes wrote:

Or, it could just be coffee.

This describes me too. Well, except pain motivates me too. If I'm hungry I'll get something to eat, If a tooth is bothering me I'll see a dentist.

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28 Mar 2011, 12:03 am

Ikonovich wrote:

They drill that into you. I felt that drive too. It fades when you get out. When I got out of basic training I'd do anything I was told and believe anything I was told by my NCOs. And they were always telling me to be motivated and dedicated and that I was motivated and dedicated.

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28 Mar 2011, 1:18 am

Mack27 wrote:

Ikonovich wrote:

To be fair I was highly motivated and dedicated before I even went to BCT. In reception my nickname was Superhooah.

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28 Mar 2011, 6:35 am

The daylight also motivates me.

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