How you motivate yourself to work hard ?

From what I've learned and tested myself, the most powerful way is to use both motivations.

First is the love of obtaining what you wish to have. Think and feel how awesome your life will be, and how great you are going to feel in your own skin.

And secondly, make living the way you life painful. Think about all the things you are missing out if you don't do nothing, and how bad you feel without progress.

Love for what you want + hate for your current situation = Enough emotional energy to lose nights working towards your dream.

I totally agree! motivation isn't the only factor to get things done and become successful. this is how i work as well. Knowing yourself and acting accordingly is the pretty importanr

yeah! right. I also do the same thing when demotivated.

Good steps for motivation.
of course, we can motivate yourself by keeping in the mind of our goal and dreams.

what would you use today.. with the number of options available that are low overhead and few to no employees . or no full time all year employees.. busier time you hire people on for a few months .

Maybe.

The people that work hard generally work in a job that requires that they work hard.

Every time I read a question about motivation, it's from someone that doesn't have to work hard to survive.
For example, if you are in internet marketing, how the heck could you work hard if you wanted to?

Even when I was selling in people's homes, how could I work hard? I was just talking to people. Most people in regular jobs would call it goofing off.

By the way, asking us how to get motivated is an odd question to me. If you aren't motivated, why would you want to be?

For example, if you suffer from ED, maybe you want viagra, because you still want sex.
But if someone were disinterested in sex, would they really want a pill that made them interested in sex?

If I don't like butterscotch pudding, would I want to find a way to like it? No. I'd simply not like it.

So the idea of wanting to be motivated, when you are not motivated, seems strange to me.

i understand what you are saying..as robots and computers, and AI replace more and more need for human "hard work.. " those who will win will be the ones who"work hard" developing the skills to use the machine/computers/ai in a productive capacity ..and then work hard developing the skills to market and sell what they produce to customers..

people who buy the stuff will only give to Sh#$@ and A F*&* how much hard work was done.. depending on the price and what was done in front of their eyes .

the concert pianist puts in hard work .. practicing a song for hundreds of hours maybe even a thousand hours.. so he or she looks to do it effortlessly in a concert hall with five hundred or a thousand people who has spend a few hundred buck to here her play for a few hours

that is the kind of hard work that leads to success..

now one of the things i have learned in the last week ..is many entrepreneurs fail and work a lot harder while they are crashing and burning.. because they are using the wrong business model for their skill and finance level . so basically just trying things that can't be done from where they are

no amount of hard work will get someone past the point in business where they need to hire and pay others ..who either know what needs to be done or need to be trained ..

so to add to something you said .. claude .. someone not only needs to get a job that requires hard work..to see what it is really like..but also work hard enough where the get put in charge with managing and training others ..and working in a team .. rather than reading books on leadership and teamwork ..

Well dang that's motivational. Seriously.

Music helps. I listen to everyday "logic - everyday"

O dear, confuseusall, such wisdom, how about when light broken, change the bloody light globe ? another bright idea just waiting for you to ponder over.

People around me? Nope, l could be thinking about how many are losing their shirts on this company, and how many newbies are losing the lot, but l am more interesting in defining distinctions that most miss, and making as much as l can lay my hands on.

Who am l getting up for, myself, what motivates me to spring out of bed, l'd rather not say, but let's just say, it would get messy if l didn't.

Working hard is subjective, as Claude has said, how can l work hard on the stockmarket online???

I study a good stock, for 15 minutes, determine subtle irregularities to stay or get out, then do so depending on open bell trends.

Or when it stabilizes l can set alerts and go and watch Lost in Space, and take a peek occasionally or rely on the alerts for the next few hours.

Not exactly digging a ditch, but l have read several books and learning through a few courses online, as well as do a Micro Business Course cert 3, and some of that was hard work.

I have spent the last year working hard, so it is time to work smarter.

There are times when you cannot work hard, and have to wait out the storm, and shore up the sails; but that is ok, (well, it isn't but in the end) since greatness is borne out of adversity and hardship.

Yeah, l know some are in their 20's and make a s....load out of thin air, and most hit their heads against this brick wall called life, and seem to get no where,....seem!

Life or the planets can put you through great hardship for months on end, with no end in sight, but that is our perspective not the universes, the universe has its own clock, as annoying and slow as that is.

But there are times when all good is taken away and hard work will help but not fix it, then all we can do is occupy ourselves with other pursuits to kill time, so time does not befuddle us.

Some may look a gift horse in the mouth and not realize that the stable is small.

The rich are not angry, they have just been through a lot more hardship than most, or the universe does not cough up for the flimsy persona, as such tends to self implode, or if Edison caved in, someone else would have developed the light bulb.

Sometimes hard work will not work, and being the personality of a dog that refuses to un-clench its jaw as being the only option.

I get this philosophy as I believe I practice part of this myself to some degree. A personal challenge I have with this work ethic though, is that I can get caught up and overworked. I don't necessarily get burnt out, but other areas of my life suffer due to this imbalance: sleep, fitness, marriage, friendships, networking, and general frustration for not accomplishing more with all the work and sacrifices I'm making.

So I'm curious how you achieve a work-life balance without feeling shame or guilt when you're not working?

Unfortunately I don't do anything consistently of that nature. i do have some hobbies that I partake in like target shooting, weight lifting etc, but my main hobby is really reading and researching things like the stock market and internet marketing, that's why I've been spending so much time on this forum. I'd like to learn how to make an income the way that you guys do. I'm currently working with a reputable guy on the forum to create a funnel for my first affiliate venture, and I'll probably be spending some time on that for a while. Eventually I'd like to be able to launch an informational MMO subscription site that has it's own affiliate program, but that will take some more time.