Staying Motivated...

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Alright guys (and the lurking gal) I am back to posting topics (if you cared.) This topic will be on staying motivated. It is a request from an aspiring Dj who shall remain nameless for right now. Now on to the main point of this topic...


Motivation?: I realize that for a lot of you out th...ok, all of you out there, you will lose interest at some point (hopefully not during this post :D.) You need to be motivated to keep going that extra...whatever it is to improve yourself. You could get almost everything done, then lose interest and not want to talk to new people. That's a waste. Below are ways to stay motivated...

Ways To Stay Motivated And Keep Going:

Set a goal and reward for yourself when you accomplish it: What do you like to do? Computer games? Video games? Watch tv? Work out? Great. Cut that off. Set a goal for yourself for something that you wouldn't normally do. Suppose it is to talk to five girls you like. Once you do it, then reward yourself. Work out, play an hour of games, whatever. Just set a goal.

Do Something With Your Friends: Have any of you seen American Pie? Great. You have the idea now. Make a pact with your friends to get dates for the weekend. Alright! To the next step!

Do Something On A Dare: Somehow trick one of your friends or someone to dare you to do something you wouldn't normally do. Prove that you have the cajones to do it. Enjoy the look of shock on thier face. Enjoy the satisfaction that you got from knowing that you could do it.

Give A Little To Get A Little: Sort of like a pact. Say to one of your friends "If I talk to blah blah blah, then you blah blah blah." You are doing something and getting something, although if you are asking a girl out, you could get a little more then whatever you talked to your friends about...:D

That's it for right now. Either enjoy it or don't! :p. Comments/suggestions/flames/I want to increase my post count posts are welcomed...until the moderators see.
 

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Nice one :) I definately will use this.
 

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Me likey.
 

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Dares are AWESOME. My buddies dared me to streak naked through the hotel in Spain over spring break. I was on the bed after they told me to do it and this girl told me I could back out. I was like "HELL NO!" and ripped off all my clothes and went. It was great to see their faces when I got back into the hotel room and stood there talking to them, buck nekkid :D
 

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Originally posted by imnexthere
very nice. Its easier to force yourself to do something when you have friends cheering you on.
Having 4 Heinikens helped a bit too :D
 
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What if my friend dares me to like punch a girl in the face, should I get the cojones and do it, so it can shock them? Will my reward still be sniffing cocaine? he he jk. Those are very good methods of keeping oneself motivated to do something, but I prefer the first two or three methods.
 

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Of all of my posts to bump up...What's with this increase of "bumps" though? Nearly all of BBB's posts have been bumped up too...
 

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Originally posted by omyomar
i started it, i did a search on motivation to see if anyone posted about it. I didn't wanna repeat, especially if i found a really good one!
Well hot damn...Take note people, Omyomar is my new favorite newbie...He knows how to use the search function AND suck up at the same time!! :D
 

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Great post...I lvoe the rewards idea. That's a way to really get going because usually you think the reward is in the long-term goal, but you make it a short-term goal, which equals more eagerness to reach the goal.
 

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On the drare idea I love doing that. At our school luch line I realized I had forgot my wallet and none of my firends would give me any money. So i said this to one of my friends

"I bet you ten bucks I can get money from a random girl before you get to the cassier."

I ended up losing the bet cause no one would give me money. But I came out wit three bags of chips one soda and slice of pizza. and I knew about ten new girls that I have never met before.

Or another bet form my luch line.lol. Every day the line has about three people in it. But those three people have about 20 friends who join them so he line grows. My friend was complianing about this one day so here was the convo

"When I got here there was only five peol infront of me now there about thirty"
"I know we should go up to someone and just act like we know them someday"
"yeah that'd be hillarious"
"I'll do it"
"Yeah right"
"NO really watch"

I do it every day. I meet everyone from seniors to freshman. Most people are pretty cool about it. My friend whos to much of a ***** has to wait an extra five minutes to get his lunch. hwile I'm out meeting new people.

Just do ****.
 

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Canadian - Oh, I mind! ;)

Jmm - Been working out pretty good so far. Weather is a lot better then Maryland, the people are nicer, and the girls are hotter! I might want to stay here longer then 4 years...Pull a Van Wilder. :D
 

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Originally posted by crazykid
Do Something On A Dare: Somehow trick one of your friends or someone to dare you to do something you wouldn't normally do. Prove that you have the cajones to do it. Enjoy the look of shock on thier face. Enjoy the satisfaction that you got from knowing that you could do it.
what an interesting time for me to come across this...

just a couple days ago, me and my freind wound up in our boxers because of the girls, and finally we got them to at least dare us to do whatever we want (they wouldn't dare us to lose the boxers as well), so we both wound up totally naked. the bummer is that we couldn't get them to do more than take their shirts off... oh well. great post man.
 
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