So many people have come up to me and asked me this in the past couple of weeks and I thought that I should share this with everyone here.

So what I am asking is, why do you do the things you do?

For me if i have a special someone i can be more motivated. But a close second is Fear. It's a historic way of getting motivation even if its a wrong way of getting it.

It's all me, baby. I've reached a point in my life where the one in control of my destiny is me. I'll do something only because I want to do it, and it benefits me in some way, shape or form. I can still do things for other people, but I don't need them to motivate me to do anything.

Plus, what's there to be afraid of? What's there to be greedy about? Ambition - to be the best at what you do, and to be recognized for it. That's immortality (albeit temporary).

I'm not a very motivated person, if anything I am waiting to die.

For music. Everything I do is driven by music, and my drive to acquire, create, and share it.

But I have a few other lesser motivators:
Love & sex: seeking both, either together or separately.
Life & quality of life: having a debilitating terminal illness is a great motivator to enjoy life as much as you can, while you can.
Acquisition of knowledge: I am forever driven to acquire knowledge, be it useful or useless, constructive or destructive, common or arcane, and by the fact that any knowledge may become useful at some point in the future, even if I can't envision having a use for it today.
Did I mention sex?

I do anything for the joy of it. If there's no joy, then why bother doing it?

Not exactly a mixture of all them...but they all hold a sepcial meaning. By all means, I don't need to be motivated...I'm very strong willed, so it's really ambition and joy...I get things done if I see it's what I like to be doing. I only do it for myself. I don't need a reason.

I'm more of an ambitious person. If I want to be good at something, I'll do everything I can to accomplish it. Sure I get insecure along the way when I see other people better than me, but I've accepted that there will always be those people. Now I just do things for self-improvement, nothing more. :biggrin:

well, all this relate to "you." and you and that someone = an imperfect person.

when we're all motivated to do things for just ourselves or just for that someone, we get:

a) disillusioned
b) spent
c) exhausted

everything we do must have a purpose or a higher calling. otherwise, we'll all end up asking for more always because even when you reach the top, you'll realise that it's never enough.

I voted greed.
Greeds empowers me to do things and improve myself.And I am rarely if not ever satisfied with myself so this sense of greed within me will always motivate me to do things and stuff.You can say its like an ongoing self-improvement drive :cheesy:

personal amusement i guess
i dont bully people or anything
its just life sucks without laughter

if i got a second/third choice for motivation i would also say greed & ambition

those things get u moving but its mostly personal amusement for me

I guess it is high time I participated in this thread, considering I made it.....

TRP: I voted anger. I did this because nothing gets me more motivated than someone just pissing the hell out of me about a task. Then I am constantly fuming throughout the entire task, and my anger keeps me from getting tired.

Seeing how I get really angry at near anything, I have a constant supply of fuel.

That or my special someone, I would do anything for her.

I voted "A Promise", because it was so hard for me to pick just one. Every last one of those options could have applied ot me, depending on what exactly it is we are talking about that I am motivated to do:

Fear - motivates me to learn Tae Kwon Do to know self-defense tactics
Greed - motivates me to work at a job I hate but pays me six figures a year
Nothing - motivates me to do the things I don't want to do. That's why I don't do them
Guilt - motivates me to stay faithful to my husband
Joy - motivates me look forward to each day
Sorrow - motivates me to donate to the needy
Anger - motivated me to vote for the first time ever last presidential election
Ambition - motivated me to graduate from college despite the financial troubles I had to go through
Personal Amusement - motivates me to play games, watch hentai and anime, sometimes pick fights :wink:
That Special Someone - motivates me to keep my hair neat, my clothes stylish, my figure, etc.
A Promise - that I made to myself to try to do whatever makes me happy motivates me to do all of the above

Ambition drives me. But sometimes there are other personal factors like...the need to improve oneself, which I think falls under ambition.

About your Guilt comment, I'm sure that isn't the only reason why you're faithful. You love the guy, silly! :lovesigh:
The other comment, this reminds me... my ex usually talked about how she's fat and wants to lose weight, etc. I'm not sure she understood me or thought I was lying, because I wasn't, when I told her that I liked how she looked just the way she was. In fact, had she looked any other way I may not have fallen for her! :buck: As for myself, so long as I appear acceptable I don't care too much one way or the other. Last example, I remember after a date I went on with her, she had asked me why was it that I asked her not to dress fancy or wear make-up or anything else extravagant, I simply replied, "Because you don't need to." :smash:

Loving somebody doesn't necessarily mean that you won't ever be attracted to or have feelings for another person. Being faithful means that you simply don't act on it.

I'm just being totally honest here, because for me, the love and the guilt go hand in hand. I do not cheat on my husband because the guilt I would feel about hurting the one I love would hurt me. Now if he told me that it would not hurt him for me to sleep with another man, I'd give Johnny Depp a call right now.

Hard to say.

I'd love to say altruism but I'm not quite at that level yet.

I'd say my self-interest.

I guess all of these things motivate me in one way or another.

at first nothing really motivates me, but the waiting game for something to happen whether life or death, or the experience to that special someone all that motivates me right now is videogames and music, but i went with the special someone choice cause we all want that someone to enjoy or hate life with