Daily-Motivation-Thread

[Marvin Adam]

I thought it would be nice to have a topic solely for work-motivation. How do you motivate yourself? What are your rituals?

Feel free to share a favorite quote if you have one or videos, speeches, anything that inspires you to get busy.

I've recently read this one:

"Fast Forward To The Last Day of Your Life ...
What Will Have Been Most Important?
Then Make That Important Now."

One personal quote:

""I Reached A Point Where I
Realized That
Working For Others
Will Always Keep Me From
Building my Own Dreams, Cause
They Hired Me To Build Theirs."

 

[Ron Killian]

Not exactly motivation, but...

"If it's going to be, it's up to me".

 

[iSixty]

I read a quote from Alex Mandossian recently that I thought was accurate and motivational for IMers,

Beware the evil twins of entrepreneurship:
1. Procrastination (not starting) &
2. Perfectionism (not finishing)

Fear of failure often causes us to delay getting our offers into the marketplace. Frequently, perfectionism is actually disguised procrastination - telling ourselves we'll launch the product when "it's ready" but there are still minor improvements that need to be made.

 

[Developer]

Developer

I am soooooooooooooo guilty of BOTH of these, it's not even funny. I literally have dozens and dozens of software products and their corresponding sales pages on my hard drive waiting to be launched and yet "I" never see them as perfect (or done enough) to launch them. It has caused a major decline in my sales lately. My wife keeps telling me "that's what updates are for, just get them posted" and yet I can't bring myself to launch them... YET, I will tomorrow... LOL...

 

[iSixty]

iSixty

It's a problem we all struggle with, Developer. That's why it's helpful to have a few friends around in forums like this one to help us get our thinking straight.

Bob