Question of the Day

[mentalflossboy]

What motivates you? Money? Fame? Power?

Lately I haven't been able to find motivation anywhere. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places.

Comments

[lordjulius]

Saving up enough money to retire and travel and do whatever the damn hell I want. Sort of. I guess in all honesty I don't have motivation anymore, but it doesn't bother me. I don't have goals really. I have achieved most (all?) of my goals and I'm pretty happy.

[macheesi]

"Lately"? :-P

[time_adc]

Well, when I was a kid, I didn't need goals. I was just happy to be and live for the moment. Then, teen-age years, I was working to graduate from high school and get into college. Then, in college I was working to graduate and get a job. Then I got a job, and I was working to become valuable to the company so that I could be financially stable. Now what? I guess I should buy a house to that I'm working to pay off the house. Or, get married so I can build a home. Or, maybe I should start over and just be happy to live for the moment again. But, with nothing to work towards, I think I'm getting lazy. I asked Drew Yamashita why he lives in LA, since he likes Seattle more. His answer, I paraphrase, was that he wanted to live in a place that he had to fight against. Kind of like the daily task of hating LA and finding the good in it gives him something to do. So maybe I should seek out an enemy and fight against it. Like, maybe, fight boob cancer; I should do Walk for the Cure or something. Also, along those lines, maybe my goal should be

[fireyice]

Once a long time ago I was motivated to meet some set of goals that I thought I needed to meet to have a successful life. Masters degree, good job, marriage, maybe an mba... and I don't think I was very good about being happy. Lately it's been a lot more about finding out what makes me happy and doing whatever is necessary to get there

[mentalflossboy]

Right. For the first 21-ish years of life, goals were pretty straightforward. Graduate high school, college, get a job. Well now that's accomplished and I lack any future milestones. Marriage isn't high on my priority list. Buying a house might be worthwhile but I'd have to pick a place to settle for at least several years.

Perhaps I just need to set some arbitrary goals and timelines (e.g. get a new job by my 27th birthday) to have something to work towards. Inertia is such a bitch, though.

[coliningus]

Women, toys, booze, math and food. Roughly in that order.

[mentalflossboy]

A worthy list, sir.