I like your spirit. How uplifting to hear your personal strategies to stay motivated. Personally, I just think of my immediate family and how much my efforts could impact their lives for the pozitive.

Hi - This is a question that I think a lot of people struggle with and it relates to managing and planning your time - My suggestion is to set a timed daily schedule for each task that you need to do each day - The tasks that you don't complete you roll over to the next day - you will get things done this way.
The other option is that where possible you can outsource some of the task

One thing is to give yourself a reward each time you complete a goal. Giving rewards is a for of motivation. Just like how managers give vacations and bonuses to their employees who perform well, you can also give yourself the treatment you deserve. Go to a spa or have a short trip somewhere during your free time in between goals. The important thing is to give yourself the necessary pampering and a well deserved break so that you can keep going farther.

Another good motivation are your children, of course when you see them not having to worry about financial matters is a reward in itself. But don't forget to have time with them, money wouldn't matter without someone to share it with (well I guess you already know that ^_^)

Keep it up! Good luck!


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Hey, well done for managing it all....with three kids your life is anything but boring!!!
This is what I do too...make a list of my tasks everyday, before I begin. I organize my list by priority, separating the urgent from the important and using the 80/20 rule, shoose the most important task and start working on that until it is 100% complete.
Everytime I complete and important task, I think I experience a burst of elation, enthusiasm and hightened self esteem. I feel energized, stronger, and ofcourse happier. I am then even more motivated to start and complete my next major task.

I work for myself out of my home and often find it a little hard to get motivated on days when i can only find low paying content writing work and have to grind through writing for hours (as opposed to other more exciting and less focused gigs i have that pay better).

I just remember that my family needs me to do this. Also, looking out the window at angry people stuck behind the train that often blocks the road a few blocks from my house, often in pouring rain while im sitting inside in my pjs helps

Time management is very important. I see to it that i will finish everything the i need to finish in a day. I usually write everything down as well but you gave me an idea of using post it. Thank you.

someone should make a thread on "how to stay inspired when you can't find any work"

thanks for sharing though

I get inspiration from people who succeed in their fields. The stories of those people motivate me.

This is something I also struggle with. My current job requires me to work a minimum of 55 hours a week and up to 70 hours. On top of that I am about to start college back up (went on a summer break). Then throw in life's little hiccups like having to work on my car since my girlfriend totaled it, spending time with her, and other things.

My problem isn't necessarily being inspired, it's more of actually getting work done after finishing my day completely exhausted. My job is extremely physically demanding (and outside in the Texas heat) so 11 or 12 hours of that is enough to put anybody down . You probably are having the same scenario especially throwing in the effort needed to take care of your kids.

My only advice that I can give is that what I try to do is save most or sometimes all of my work for the 1 or 2 days where I don't have a huge workload to do in the week. So say Saturday and Sunday I don't go in to work and only have to take care of things like working on my car or doing things with family (my workload is obviously going to be different but you get the idea). Well since this doesn't usually take up my entire day, I can usually slip away and dump 3, 4, 5, maybe even 8 hours a day sometimes into IM if I'm lucky. Also I try to get on at least once a day for 30 minutes to manage little things, check statistics, do maintenance and things like that. It's not too bad when you save the big work sessions for when you haven't really already worked 12-16 hours out the day already.

Hope this helps. I'm definitely open to more suggestions of how to handle this from people that deal with really heavy workloads that they can't really cut back on. I don't think it's talked about enough honestly.

Bills are great motivation :p

the best way to be inspired is to continually feed your brain with motivational material such as tony robins etc