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unique_username  ·  3174 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you motivate yourself? What motivates you?

    I don't know what kind of job you have, but that won't fly in an actual career. You have to do things you don't want to do; that's just part of life.

I'm still technically a kid still in school. But why would I want an actual career? Do you think that it is gonna make me happier or more complete as a person? It won't, so there is really no need for me to go that way. You don't have to do things you don't want to, I don't. And it really made me enjoy my life more. For example I don't like cleaning my house. That's fine then I won't do it. -But it is gonna stay dirty that way. Then I will hire someone else to do it instead of me. And meanwhile I will do something that I enjoy such as making art and then I'm gonna sell it to make the money to pay that someone who did the thing I don't like. That's how I live my life.

    It's simply impossible not to be motivated. Your body will force you to breathe, drink, eat, and sleep. If you're doing other tasks, you're motivated to do them by some force. That doesn't mean that you're out there writing inspirational thoughts about doing them, but something is causing you to desire to complete that action.

This is correct but I didn't talk about that. What I meant was that there is really no need to find a specific motivation or unmotivation and simply doing what you enjoy is gonna lead you to happiness.