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The real motivation is when you actually take action on your own accord. GET OUT THERE PEOPLE. Today I went to the gym for the first time in my life and ran two miles and repped 100 lbs 50 times. I'm 6'4, 300 lbs. The rest of my life is my motivation. Go fucking grab what you want, work towards it, don't bullshit around reading quotes. That is all.
If you're constantly thinking about how you're going to be better than others, it means you're not focusing on what's important, which is to be better than your former self.
Competition will make you lose focus on your own goals.
If Steve Jobs just cared about being "better than average", he'd have studied harder and got a 4.0 GPA instead of a 2.5. Instead, he focused on his own goals, and crafted a life that's out of the ordinary. Bill Gates got As everywhere, but he wasn't doing that to be better than everyone else, but because he loves learning, and understanding everything. If he only cared about getting good grades to be "above average", he wouldn't have skipped all his graded classes to attend ones he didn't even sign up for.
If you have a dream, chase it with all your heart, even if it's against society's expectations. If you like that girl/guy who you think is absolutely beautiful/handsome, but that your friends don't find attractive, go for her/him, all that matters is what she/he means to you.
Life isn't mathematical, where you add up all the aspects of your life and you get a number telling you how well you're doing, it's more like "I feel like today is a good day", "I regret what I did yesterday", "Looking forward to giving that presentation next week!", "I can't believe how lucky I am to have met her, I love her so much", "That adventure was really fun!"
Please nominate and vote for your favorite content from /r/GetMotivated during 2014. Here are the categories from last year:
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Please nominate and vote for your favorite content from /r/GetMotivated during 2015. Here are the categories from last year:
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Most inspiring story
Best original content
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Best video
Best article
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Hey guys!
We (moderators) are currently trying to improve the quality of /r/Getmotivated. As you might have noticed, we started looking for new mods and should have a few of them recruited and helping us moderate by the end of this week! We also have been thinking of redoing the CSS front and adding a couple more rules here and there.
We'd love to have your input, as users of /r/Getmotivated as to what you guys would like to change in this subreddit? What would you like for us (moderators) to improve. What would make your browsing of /r/Getmotivated a more enjoyable experience?
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I see dozens of helpful, encouraging posts on here each day. The key to getting any benefit from them is ignoring the comment section completely. For whatever reason, a sub dedicated to motivation is filled with the most vitriolic posters I have ever seen. Whether the trolls who do it because they've nothing else in their lives or the people who are so lost in their own cynicism that the slightest ray of sunshine blinds them, the comment sections of any post on this sub are toxic wastelands.
I don't get it. While I can understand that certain posts may not be encouraging, I fail to grasp why someone would actively seek to tear down another person who comes here for a bit of motivation. What's more, I don't understand why more action isn't being taken against these users.
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First time on the sub, sorry if I did something wrong.
I'm having a hard time staying motivated throughout college due to depression. I can't take a gap year either.
Any motivation tips? There's exams next week but I've barely gotten started. Thank you.
The /r/getmotivated mod team have decided to have the first week of 2015 as a selfpost week. I hope that you will take some time to think about the year with an analytic mind-set. I think that too often this subreddit gets caught up in the emotion "rah rah rah" motivation, but I think that the most effective thing for you to do during this first week is to think about what is important and to create a plan to continuously improve the areas of your life you consider important.
What areas of your life do you consider most important? (physical health, mental/emotional health, relationships, career/contribution, creative/personal projects)
Develop a plan to continuously improve each of these important areas throughout the year. Try to define some metrics/milestones/markers with dates to keep you on track.
How will you measure your progress? How will you remind yourself to stay on track? How will you ensure you follow through?
I think every GetMotivated user should think about the previous year and ask, What went well? What didn't go well? What could go better this year? And then set goals to affect the desired changes. Stagnation is damnation. Keep moving. Always be working towards something.
Not because of the posts, but because of the people. Every time something is posted here i look in the comments and all i see is a bunch of people criticizing the post or the OP. When i first subbed here when it was at 50k people it was full of uplifting comments on every post no matter how corny or wrong it was. People wanted to get motivated people spewed their emotions of disdain for their inability and helped each other work at goals. Now when i come here all i see is comments saying "thats stupid, or thats wrong, or that doesnt make sense and is dumb.". You complain about quality and reposts when you dont contribute anything yourselves. Commenting a positive thing on a post that you think is a negative is also contributing. Even that is out of the picture for most folk here. All i have to say to people like that is: Fuck you. The reason im here is to stray away from that thinking and to find some strength. You aren't contributing, you are taking away an asset that I and many others are in dire need of. Go away, take your cynical rants somewhere else or- come here with words of encouragement. This is supposed to be a safe place not a shit show. /End rant
Sincerely, someone looking for a little bit of hope in apparently the wrong place.
Edit: We are no longer taking new applications, thank you to all of you who showed interest. If you are picked, you will be contacted ASAP.
Hello guys!
We are looking for some super mods to be added to our team. If you want to be part of the mod team of a great and motivating community this is your chance! Anyone is free to apply.
If you are interested, please reply to this thread by telling us
- What do you like about /r/Getmotivated?
- Why you do you think you'd be a good addition to the mod team?
Thank you.
N.B. If you don't feel comfortable enough to post in this thread, you are welcome to send your answers by private message. Avoid messaging all the mods sinc your message might get lost.
Hi sorry I was just wondering if it's just me did the sub change something that no longer allow imgur & other pics for preview in hover zoom?
Dear community,
We, once again, would like your input on the subreddit. We would like to know what kind of images you guys want to see on this subreddit and what kind of images you are tired of seeing.
Please vote with a "yes" or "no" to the following question;
- Do you want to see pictures with only text (not quotes, not charts, not diagrams) in this subreddit, is it motivating to you?
To be more precise, we are referring to these types of pictures;
You get the idea, images that are mainly words places on a nice (or plain) background.
We greatly appreciate and value your input. If you do not feel comfortable commenting in this thread to give your opinion, feel free to message the moderators and let us know what you think, it's always a pleasure to hear from you guys.
Thank you!
P.S. We are also very happy to announce that we have two new moderators joining our team. Welcome to /u/Pallas-athena & /u/davidreiss666!!!
its not that im going bad but there is this one last exam in 20 days. I need to learn but in most of the times i feel depressed i just dont know how to start. Its hard to get into.. anyone has some advice?
I've already seen some people all around Reddit who use various pictures (from regular artworks to Reddit comments) on their Desktop to keep themselves motivated.
As I'm doing the same currently, and I love the concept, I decided to create a subreddit for this. What do you think of the idea?
I'll delete both the sub and this post if I get negative reception.
Why do so many people come to this subreddit if they're just gonna nitpick every post here? This is supposed to be a place for improvement, but all I'm seeing is negativity and the denouncement of any quote that doesn't directly apply to them.
Hi everyone, I understand the objections to us removing the snowden thread. However, this subreddit is not /r/politics or /r/worldnews where everyone can share all the opinions they have of snowden and such discussion would be encouraged.
For this subreddit, I believe the focus of comments should be on "what is motivating or inspiring about this submission?" Although there were a few good comments in that thread, we decided to remove that thread because most comments were non-constructive, malicious or off-topic.
I often receive complaints about the comments being the worst part of /r/getmotivated, and I decided to try to keep the subreddit on-focus by removing that thread.
It's not an easy task being a mod and deciding what should or shouldn't be allowed. I'm happy to take feedback regarding that thread.
Hi guys, I'm new to the sub, so I'll take this sentence to say "hello" to you all and I'm pretty stoked to have found this sub. I just want to make sure before I start posting, but I wanted to use this sub to post the progress of my 90 day challenge. Basically, the inspiration for the challenge comes from a lynda.com article:
I'll be setting up a Wordpress site, to document the specifics of what I'm going to be learning; it will be mostly web design stuff, but also database/Adobe CS progress. So, does this sound like something that this sub would be interested in? I could really use some motivated people to keep me going and you seem like a great group.
The TLDR, I'm doing a 90 day binge learning challenge and I want to post to this sub for motivation.
----Edit-----
I've got my site up, you can follow the project here:
https://www.100daylearning.com
--Update--
I'm moving on into day 2, not sure if I'm still reaching you guys. I have moved on into this post on the sub:
--Update Day 3--
So, I started working on day 3, hasn't been much of a day for learning HTML and CSS, but I've run into some interest stuff none the less:
https://100daylearning.com/vps-sysadmin-html/
--Update Day 4--
I've started day 4 and I wanted to address the problem of not writing enough code, I'm learning a ton but I feel like it won't stick if I don't get writing:
https://100daylearning.com/codepenandbasichtml/
--Update Day 5--
I've started day 5, I started working with a little bit of CSS and even managed to incorporate Bootstrap into my work. Been a bit slow, as I have to work this weekend:
https://100daylearning.com/bootstrap-css-day-5-challenge/
--Update Day 6 and 7 --
Sorry to do a merged post, didn't have time to do an update yesterday, though I did some reading. It has been an awesome week so far and I want to thank you all so much for your support. This sub is awesome:
https://100daylearning.com/css-foundations-lynda-day-6-7/
--Update Day 8 --
Spent the day looking at some CSS Specifications and looking into the tool Firebug. Been learning a ton and feeling like this is a great start to Week 2.
https://100daylearning.com/day8/
--Update Day 9 --
Entering day 9 of the challenge and feeling pretty good. Not sure if I should keep plugging away at HTML/CSS or diversify, what do you think?
https://100daylearning.com/html-head-sections/
--Update Day 10 --
We are officially 10% of the way! I'm super excited, though today is going to be one of those days that really challenges me to push myself; super busy today and feeling a little stressed.
https://100daylearning.com/sectioning-documents-html-vs-html5-day-10-challenge/
For context, check out this thread.
Many people understood that comic differently than me, judging by the top comments. They might be right, and I may be wrong (or the opposite or something in between), but please give me a chance to present how I understood it.
Okay, let's ignore that teenager's smug for a short while and focus on the core of it:
"If you want to have something, you have to work hard to achieve that goal". What does this mean exactly?
If I work hard, will I become X? No! Becoming X depends on multiple factors, you working hard just being one not even necessary factor in that equation. Consider "X = rich": Some people don't work at all and become rich, some people work really much and never become rich. Working Hard is just a way of increasing the chances of achieving X.
I work hard, yet I am still not X. This also does not contradict what the comic says. Consider again "X = rich": Some people might be very hard workers, but due to chronic diseases, economical crisis, divorces may still not be rich. However, they would certainly be poorer if they would not put hard work in. The would have made less progress towards X if they wouldn't have worked hard on it.
Okay, you might ask now, this is all common sense! Nothing new to find here. Well for some maybe, but some people might find something for themselves in here. Some valuable thoughts that I came across, related to the comic:
Be honest with yourself. When you wish something, do you really want it (as in: are you willing to make the effort and chance it?) It took me quite some while before I realized that I don't really want everything I think I do. Yes, having a girlfriend would be cool... but most of the time I said that, I was not willing to allocate resources (emotions, therapy, money) into changing myself accordingly. Making this realization enabled me to put that issue out of my mind for some years, freeing my brain for other things.
Don't blame the environment. By this I don't mean: Tell the quadroleptic to just ignore medical knowledge and walk by sheer willpower. No sane person would do this. Instead, I would talk with him about things he can change. If he is smart and lazy, and complains about a bad grade he got because of slacking of - I as a good friend would view it as my duty to point out that it was his laziness that got him the grade, not the teacher or the material. (Disclaimer: Sometimes there are shitty teachers and stuff). Worry only about the stuff that you can change, accept the rest. (What else can you do?)
This is what I made of the comic, make of it what you want. All the best to you all!