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Work Motivation
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin
What do you get out of your job and what does your boss (if there is one) get out of you? Do you benefit from your job in more ways than just earning money?
If you don’t, you should reevaluate your current priorities and change something!
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Phantasy Motivation
The world is a fucking mess. It is full of dragons and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be, and that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawhl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up!
Patrick Rothfuss
Think of those dragons as challenges. Daily challenges like getting up early or being disciplined or long-term challenges like being happy in a personal way or successful in any way. You have to fight those dragons and train yourself in battle!
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Rise and shine [video]
This sports motivation video contains great advice for anybody and speaks directly out of my soul. There are burning reasons within everyone to get up early, to train hard, work hard, do whatever one loves. You just have to find them and trust your gut.
Even more important is to mute your inner voice of automated excuses. Yes, your brain will find excuses for everything, always. Yes, they seem plausible on the first glance. No, they are not. They are distractions, obstacles that you have to overcome in order to get where you want to go!
The choice between the comfortable and the right thing to do is not always easy, but it gets easier with time. You can train discipline. No more excuses, start your training today!
Don’t be afraid of living
You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Take chances, do what’s fun!
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What makes you angry?
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Abraham Lincoln
Also: What makes other people angry?
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Don’t worry, be happy! [picture]
Again, zenpencils is spot-on!
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Hey! Listen!
I never learned anything whe I was talking.
Larry King
Listen a lot! People are full of useful informations, stories, lessons. Listen and make use of that. Be genuinely interested and enjoy people.
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Figuring out the right things to want [picture]
A friend recently shared this gem with me, absolutely awesome:
It is key to figure out just what you want out of life. You have this one life and I think many of you will find themselves in an sea of endless opportunities. Think about what you really want, about your priorities. Then get started!
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You are one of the lucky ones, embrace it!
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.
We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people.
In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
Richard Dawkins
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