What's Your Motivation?

So I can work mo betta bigga.

I actually enjoy working on web projects. If I had more money, I would be able to create even bigger crazier projects and not have to worry so much about short term profitability. I would also be able to do this in nice surroundings with people of my choosing.

Having an exciting project in the works, although frustrating at times, is what gets me up in the morning and dominates a large part of my thinking.

In my world, there is no 'end result', whatever I could possibly attain, I already know it would only offer short term happiness. No, for me the joy is truly in the journey, and even 'hard work' is enjoyable if it is spent doing something I love and am passionate about.
 


Bofu2U said:
If I make 1000 uBot sales, LordB told me he would have sex with me.

Gettin' my grind on to get my grind on.
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Really?

Ill make you a deal bofu. Ill buy it 1000 time through your link wit dif prepaid cards..... but I need a video of it

fap fap fap
 
guerilla said:
A couple days ago, I stayed up until 7 in the morning because I was so excited about what I was working on.
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This is what it's all about.

I've had quite a few of those nights so far this year. I actually am sleeping just 4 or 5 hours because in the morning I can't wait to get up and started (to wake me up I take a shot of maple syrup - yeah, yeah I'm Canadian).

A lot of people get into internet marketing because it's a means to an end. They just want the money for the trip, the car, the house. Which there's nothing at all wrong with. But I'm surprised more people haven't stated that they just enjoy making more money.

Money, to me, is just a measure of success. I don't want for a lot, I may get a nice car but it's not the reason I work so hard. The more money I make, the more success I feel I've had and this has always made me happy.

Since I was seven or eight I was hitting away at a calculator and trying to pawn off things I made to my family members. While others get excited over the latest vampire book I get excited over a new great business/marketing book.

My motivation is to move from the relatively small city I live in now [90,000] to Manhattan - where some of my family lives and where I love being. Another thing that motivates me is getting into real estate more. Buying more apartments, building more, etc.

I don't like thinking too far into the future and picturing myself, 20 years from now, on a beach somewhere or on a new boat. I like to picture myself the way I want to be next year because that's what really motivates me - not what I may find motivating in 20 years. Priorities in life change.
 
FTC-Hater said:
This is what it's all about.

I've had quite a few of those nights so far this year. I actually am sleeping just 4 or 5 hours because in the morning I can't wait to get up and started (to wake me up I take a shot of maple syrup - yeah, yeah I'm Canadian).

A lot of people get into internet marketing because it's a means to an end. They just want the money for the trip, the car, the house. Which there's nothing at all wrong with. But I'm surprised more people haven't stated that they just enjoy making more money.

Money, to me, is just a measure of success. I don't want for a lot, I may get a nice car but it's not the reason I work so hard. The more money I make, the more success I feel I've had and this has always made me happy.

Since I was seven or eight I was hitting away at a calculator and trying to pawn off things I made to my family members. While others get excited over the latest vampire book I get excited over a new great business/marketing book.

My motivation is to move from the relatively small city I live in now [90,000] to Manhattan - where some of my family lives and where I love being. Another thing that motivates me is getting into real estate more. Buying more apartments, building more, etc.

I don't like thinking too far into the future and picturing myself, 20 years from now, on a beach somewhere or on a new boat. I like to picture myself the way I want to be next year because that's what really motivates me - not what I may find motivating in 20 years. Priorities in life change.
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I stopped being able to pull all nighters when I turned 23. How old are you guys pulling the all nighters? fuck. me.
 
Bofu2U said:
If I make 1000 uBot sales, LordB told me he would have sex with me.

Gettin' my grind on to get my grind on.
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1000 Only gets you a reach around. 2500 Closes the Full Deal! Get your grind on.
 
freedom.

freedom to do what i want, when i want. tour the world. go to the superbowl. whatever i feel like...
 
Render said:
Just started. I want a commercial building with 4 stories and plenty of office space. :D
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+rep for your first post.


In the past month or two Ive noticed Im getting fascinated by skyscrapers LOL, I guess tall buildings equal money, power and respect in my book.

Whats my motivation? I want full floor offices in 3 locations (at least!):

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To those who wonder its azrieli towers, empire state building and burj dubai.
 
stussy5555 said:
I stopped being able to pull all nighters when I turned 23. How old are you guys pulling the all nighters? fuck. me.
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I'm 34. I tried to pull an all nighter last year and I felt like I was dying. I would regularly go 2 or 3 days without sleep in my early 20s, but I can't do it anymore.

Plus, I've started to realize how important sleep and a proper diet is to being effective. Now my goals are to be consistent every day. I get way more work done under those conditions.

But that one thing I am working on, man it had me so pumped I just kept working. Sometimes you just catch a groove and want to ride it as long as you can.
 
cardine said:
My motivation is to have enough money (7-8 figures) by around 2025 to start my own privately owned corporation that will be the first to pioneer and develop real Artificial Intelligence (machines that are more intelligent than humans).
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Literally exactly the same as mine...

check out (on intelligence) Jeff Hawkins is further along the same life path.
 
For now, it's freedom, plain and simple.

I don't want to report to anyone, I want to go wherever I want to go and travel somewhat comfortably, and I want to be left the fuck alone for periods of time that I establish.

That and the occasional drunken bender.

I don't need to make tons to afford rent, a cheap lifestyle, utilities, insurance, and savings. My affiliate earnings are getting there. I also have enough stashed up to live for 3 years cheaply, but would rather not waste it all.

I'm about ready to go full-time.
 
defelice said:
damn, looks like quite a few people here share the same dream... @insomniac, I'm probably not cut out for racing bikes, Its probably a little too dangerous.. have you ever experienced this?
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It's honestly not too bad. Here is a video (albeit low quality) of me crashing.

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The bike was pretty damaged, but I got up and walked away, didn't have a scratch or even a bruise on me. I've crashed around five times on the track, twice in the same weekend, and never once been in any pain at the end of it.

The street however is dangerous. I've crashed twice and both times broke shit.

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Take it to the track, it's MUCH safer :)
 
I do it for Burning Man.

I went to the desert two years ago and, during a particularly lucid acid trip, saw myself as a monkey for the first time. I realized that as a monkey, my primary goal is happiness, and my primary advantage over other species is my ability to build things, and that I should use this advantage to increase my happiness. I realized that there are lots of things I can build in my life, including software and businesses and relationships, but that art is my #1 priority. I want to express myself by building: dreaming, designing and implementing things that I think are both awesome and unique.

I believe that the scale and extend of the art I can produce directly correlates to how much money I make during the rest of the year, so, combined with my general desire to simply "build incredible things", I have a very strong motivation to build amazing software, and to work my ass off year round. I want to be RICH, not so I can inundate myself with material crap, but so that I can afford myself the time and resources to channel my creations into reality, free of the current debt crunch I'm in and without limiting my supply of materials and tools.

So, my mission: I want to spend 51 weeks a year working hard to make monies by building software I can be proud of, with the evidence of my success materialized in the form of my imagination's craziest creations, and to spend 1 week a year in the desert drinking and dancing and lighting my art on fire just to watch it burn. It's only been 2 years since I've pretty much made this my world view, but so far it's kept me motivated pretty intensely.
 
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