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What drives/motivates you?

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Bucky Katt said:
All these responses are inspirational and heart-warming, but...let's be honest, folks... the correct answer to the question is money.
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not true at all... I left a job/career where I was making really good money because I wasn't with my kids as much as I wanted to be. My wife and I packed up everything and moved to Florida to be closer to my parents so they could be a part of my kids lives on a day to day basis. I was offered a promotion but I turned it down and left the company shorty afterwards. Don't get me wrong... money is important but somethings are more important. I would have had a job that paid $85,000/year but I would have never have had time for my family. I now make a lot less but I can make them breakfast every morning and put them to bed everynight.
 
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The first two things that come to mind in regards to motivation is adrenaline and challenge's...

If there is something most people have failed doing, I tend to take that road to prove to myself I can do it... in unfamiliar situations the adrenaline rush of going into the unknown tends to motivate me as well... I'm not near the adrenaline junkie I was when I was younger, however it still works in regards to pushing me past the "comfort level"... a rule I try to live by each day is to put myself in an uncomfortable situation so I can grow and learn for the action as well as push my comfort level... what is comfortable today would have been unheard up in the past...


Faith helps to motivate as well... when I do have children I'm sure they will factor in as well...
 
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Bucky Katt said:
All these responses are inspirational and heart-warming, but...let's be honest, folks... the correct answer to the question is money.
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I disagree. Teaching was supposed to be a one year gig for me and then off to law school. That was 6 years ago. If money is the main motivation...do not go into the education field.
 
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Ten years ago I was working in a dead-end job, making around $8 an hour and going nowhere fast....then my first son was born.

I realized immediately that I needed to do something or he would live a life much like mine, and I wanted more for him. The only problem, I was 28 and didn't graduate from college, so my future looked pretty dim. I didn't want to go back to school as I didn't feel I had time to wait - I needed to do something now to improve my son's future.

Using my son's future as constant motivation, I worked hard, learned as much as possible about the field I'm in and made a few good career moves. I steadily climbed the ladder and today I'm a director at a large heath care system earning an excellent living for my family.

And I owe it all to the birth of my son, Zachary.
 
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Zach's a lucky kid, GMan.

My kids. Their mom and I are about to split up and it's going to be painful for both of them (especially my seven year old), but I know that it's the right thing to do for everyone. If I stayed to save my kids some short-term pain, I couldn't live with myself, but that doesn't really make it any easier. How do you explain to a seven year old that causing her what I'm sure will feel excruciating to her is right?
 
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RugbyBuck said:
Zach's a lucky kid, GMan.

My kids. Their mom and I are about to split up and it's going to be painful for both of them (especially my seven year old), but I know that it's the right thing to do for everyone. If I stayed to save my kids some short-term pain, I couldn't live with myself, but that doesn't really make it any easier. How do you explain to a seven year old that causing her what I'm sure will feel excruciating to her is right?
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how bitchy is she. you got 11 years left till parole if you can deal with it without killing her or yourself. i got a boy who has it broken down like that. you can walk up to him at work and ask him and he will have it down with a tresselesque accuracy. 'i got 9 years, 3 months, and ....'

they frequently split up and he bangs it out while he is split up, but he always gets back with her after a brief time away. better for the kid (in his opinion) and better than child support and alimony for sure. throw in the fact that his time with his son isn't limited this way and he is loving it. pussy on the side, time away from the wife, lots of makeup sex, no extra $ flowing out of his pocket, and time with his boy.
 
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Interesting experience... in my prior career, one of my depts was HR/Org Dev and we were looking at bringing in a program to ascertain what motvates folks (in a self assessment process) .. so I volunteered myself to participate/evaluate...

Starts with rank your top 10 motivators/drivers... then after a couple day program... it comes back with what the system says is your real top 10... we ended up not buying it... I wasn't convinced.. results were too significantly different than my perceptions... About 5 years later, a new product hits the market, and again I test it myself.. same exact process... your perceived top 10 vs your results...

The interesting fact is that I basically had the same perceived top 10 in both.. with money being in the top 3.. but at the end of the testing, money barely made the top 10.. and only because of what addl drivers it aids.. results were virtually identical in BOTH tests! The testing group revealed this was very common... money almost never made the top 5 in results... but almost always makes the pre-test top 5... and #1 ranking was common pre-test...

Integrity and family led both results despite integrity not being in either pre-test top 10... Family and faith are almost locks in the top 3 results... with many years to reflect on my actual test results, I found them amazingly accurate...
 
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BIATCHabutuka said:
how bitchy is she. you got 11 years left till parole if you can deal with it without killing her or yourself. i got a boy who has it broken down like that. you can walk up to him at work and ask him and he will have it down with a tresselesque accuracy. 'i got 9 years, 3 months, and ....'

they frequently split up and he bangs it out while he is split up, but he always gets back with her after a brief time away. better for the kid (in his opinion) and better than child support and alimony for sure. throw in the fact that his time with his son isn't limited this way and he is loving it. pussy on the side, time away from the wife, lots of makeup sex, no extra $ flowing out of his pocket, and time with his boy.
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I can see that scenario working under some circumstances, but I'm out, whatever the price of admission.
 
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Motivation depends on the activity. Summary below:

1. What motivates me to go to work? I need money to pay the bills and support my wife and 5 children. Not to mention that good cigars are expensive.
2. What motivates me to go to church? The opportunity to worship together with other believers and experience the joys of friendship and community.
3. What motivates me to teach Bible Study for high school students? The desire to give back some of what has been given, and to share my experience and knowledge with young people in the hope that it will bring them closer to God. Perhaps the correct term is "paying forward", like Coach Hayes used to say.
4. What motivates me to sit in front of a television on Saturday afternoons in the fall? The men in Scarlet and Grey.
5. What motivates me to post on BP? Either an interesting topic from a normal BP member, or some inane comment from Tibor.
 
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