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What drives you?

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Ryno
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What drives you to get up and do shit during the day? Future goals? Public service? parents? bills?
May 13 2008 10:23PM
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Ryno
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Are you 100% convinced mentally that nothing else exists?
May 15 2008 8:38PM
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Ryno
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That is part of what drives me too. Putting in time doing certain things I normally would avoid doing so I can afford to do the things I enjoy. Sometimes though its hard to stick to that mantra when the good times become far and few between so I have a hard time fully backing this idea.

There is so much interesting shit out there that I should be able to find something I enjoy and get paid to do...
May 15 2008 8:42PM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
I pretty much just do shit so that I can do shit I want to do. example: I've been dying to score a moped lately and my grandma offered me a ton of money to do some chores for her and paint her garage, so I drove to her house this week and worked my ass and now I've got enough dough for a moped! woot. unfortunately school has no immediate return like that so I have real trouble gettin motivated to do well in school.... :/
May 15 2008 8:46PM
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doritos
Posts: 7368 - Karma: 53
Yeah, I get that feeling all too much... you work way too much at a job you hate to pay for things you don't want to spend your money on and when the rare chance to enjoy yourself rolls around... all your money's tied up and life becomes a grind. Fast. And then you get to the "Why the fuck am I even earning money if it's keeping me from enjoying myself" stage. Fun stuff. But life always hands you cookies here and there that make everything worthwhile. Like ski season.
May 15 2008 8:48PM
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STREETS
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As of late i've been lacking motivation but I find that once i force myself to go and "DO WORK" isn't so bad.  What really drives me in the end though is that I want an office at 40 000ft:)
May 15 2008 10:09PM
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Ryno
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May 16 2008 7:05PM
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jedi.Jim
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When I first wake up I don't want to get up, and lay there for as long as possible (just like most others), but then it comes across me that there will be something fun and worthwhile to do today, such as practicing appregios, finding a place to bum for the summer, and cooking meals. It's really hard to have a positive outlook when you refer to things as "I have to do this today," and not "I want to do this today."

We were just talking about motivators in my psychology class last week, its pretty interesting stuff.
May 16 2008 8:00PM
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mattster
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people are best motivated by either love or fear.
May 16 2008 8:02PM
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Balto
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i get up to see my friends who with out I don't know what I would do
May 16 2008 8:09PM
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doritos
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Psych in general is pimp shit, I like it. Unfortunately, I can't ever really bring myself to think "Man, I WANT to go to work today so I can earn money to pay for my broken-ass car. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll have some left over for rent!" at 8AM. I've tried. Doesn't happen.
May 16 2008 8:14PM
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Alexander_Keith
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What drives me in life?
The will to give to my future family, what my parents have given to me: love, care, support, motivation, advice, and a lifestyle where i don't have to spend every waking hour working so that I just sustain myself, but a lifestyle where the necessities are provided and I can focus on my dreams and self advancement.

How do I achieve this?
Medium term goals. First- finish university with good grades, a new language, and exchange experience in a country where that language is spoken (Germany) Second- get work experience in the diplomatic corps, third- complete a masters, fourth, career and family.

My every day is geared toward doing whats neccesary to acheive these goals.

I also wear condoms, lest a surprise mini-me ruin my carefully planned goals.
May 16 2008 8:34PM
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paulbunyan
Posts: 3110 - Karma: 90
who gets up? hell i dont even sleep
May 16 2008 9:40PM
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ax_murderer
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 30
nothing. im the most unmotivated person it pisses me off. i know i have no motivation and just cant change it. pathetic.

to that earlier kid on adhd medecine. im a beast on that stuff. unstoppable i just do workkk
May 16 2008 9:50PM
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BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
Dude, it's

I TREAT every day like it's game seven in overtime


Jeeze


I've seen Forward way too many times.
May 16 2008 9:57PM
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shibby
Posts: 7088 - Karma: -19
Honestly, nothing. It's really quite pathetic.
May 16 2008 10:10PM
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pussymoneyweed
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a men
i also look forward to everyday skiing gets closer..
May 16 2008 11:47PM
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raddar
Posts: 681 - Karma: 65
sex








and skiing
May 16 2008 11:50PM
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2+2=5
Posts: 3676 - Karma: 18
to do things i enjoy
May 16 2008 11:53PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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the idea that I run a computer company that could actually help move the environment towards sustainability and then we could have longer winters once again.

That def gets me up every day.
May 17 2008 12:07AM
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jeremy.g
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the weather has been super nice lately and lots of people have been downtown. me and my friends have just been crusing around on our longboards enjoying it. to me thats one of the funnest things ever.
May 17 2008 12:20AM
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jedi.Jim
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How does your company promote sustainability?
May 17 2008 9:00PM
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603skier
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im money motivated.
May 17 2008 9:01PM
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miroz
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I'm really not sure.  I think it might be the fact that I love my life (claim)...I like money, I like skiing, and I like a lot of other things, but I don't think they change the idea that I enjoy living.  I'm  usually happiest in the morning b/c I'm a morning person, and being a sophomore in highschool, I don't have much to worry about.  I guess I'm just fine with the way I live.
May 17 2008 9:04PM
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Luc.
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life drives me.

life is not only insanly short but goes by insanley fast. some days i get up and i just wanna chill.

some days i feel really fucked up and and everything interests me. breathing. wind. motion. life.

some days i wanna get up and just have a few beers and fucking destroy shit.(graffiti)

some days i wanna make as much money as humanly possible

some days i wanna spend all my money.

life drives me. the interest i have for everything that is and isnt around me.

hate drives me.

love drives me.
May 17 2008 9:12PM
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Luc.
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and sinse graff has been mentioned a few times i figured i would post the movie that the quotes have been commin from. TOOMER says it best at the start of the film.(thats his Graff alias)

greatest movie ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9v2UgHUHY4
May 17 2008 9:17PM
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comeatmebro
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what drives me? the fact that i only have 80 short years to live my life. and do everything i possibly can do in that lifetime. that and the fact that that day could be my last. sounds cliche but it's true.
May 17 2008 9:21PM
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860
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I do what I want to have fun, it doesn't matter when you died or how you lived or how much money you have, who you know, or what you have. Lifes all about you, do what you want. You only live for so long and everyone dies, no one is better than you, everyone is great in there own way, try to find the good in people before jumping to the bad. Live life to the fullest, because before you know it its over
May 17 2008 9:24PM
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fujarome
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may sound dumb to some, but soccer keeps me going. every morning the first thing i see is a big poster of Thierry Henry near my bed. Then i see my keeper gloves and my cleats. It keeps me going because of the potential. I love that feeling of practicing something relentlessly, and then in a game when i need it, i'm able to pull it off perfectly. I love being able to make that slightly better save or more accurate kick and know that it was thanks to time i put into it.
May 17 2008 11:48PM
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ChanchoVelez.
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i dont know school or just finding ways to get money so i can buy shit. also i am still young so my motivation is just to get up and enjoy everyday that i dont have to go to work or something like that haha cuz that sounds like it would suck haha even though i need a job
May 17 2008 11:58PM
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jason...
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born to shine
May 18 2008 12:55AM
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chimp
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taking a shit drives to do everything
May 18 2008 12:56AM
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Ryno
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Word man, I have spent a lot of time cruising on the longboard around town this summer. Awesome weather and a cool crew and its so much fun.
May 20 2008 8:29AM
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low_fidelity
Posts: 2673 - Karma: 118
tru dat sonn
May 20 2008 9:04AM
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Ryno
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bump:P
May 25 2008 10:36PM
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