What motivates you ?

[kiwitt]

For me it used to be goals.

Marry my High School sweetheart - DONE
Become a respected Senior Network Engineer - DONE
Work for a telecommunications company - DONE
Be a manager at a telecommunications company - DONE
Own a mortgage-free home in an area I want - DONE
Have a healthy retirement savings account - DONE
Do a "major" overseas trip every 2 years - DONE
Own a High Performance "Sports Car" - DONE
Become a respected security specialist - DONE
Find and play the best RTS game; MTW - DONE

I am at the point most people get to which some call a "mid-life" crisis. However, I feel quite comfortable where I am and what direction I am going in. Before someone asks, we are now too old to have kids because of our careers, so we are quite content to have "rent-a-kids" (nieces/nephews, etc.) who will spoil.

Do I a "change" direction, with the possible loss of income ? Or do I set new goals. What motivates you, so I can have some idea as to what possible goals I can chose from.

[Moros]

getting the most post from every Guild member?
or becomming a senior member?

ofcourse! beer! the bringer and solution to all of todays problems!
(-homer (not the greek!))

[Mongoose]

I think the exact quote was "alcohol; the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems"

I have watched one simpsons episode too many

[ichi]

kiwitt , I don't know if what motivates me will apply to you, but here goes . . .

I really love what I do professionally. I get to go places and do things that are quite interesting, and the feeling that I get from dealing with the challengeswork presents is so important to me. It's addictive, some say.

In order to continue to be active in my field I have to work hard to maintain my qualifications and my reputation. Every incident, every person that I work with, all can add to or detract from my future opportunities.

The hardest part is staying fit, which has become a lot harder in the last few years as I approached 50 (perhaps coincidently with my discovery of Total War and this forum). 24 year old masses of muscle won't respect the overweight out-of-breath guy no matter how many years he has in service.

So my advice is to do what excites (or at least interests) you, then the motivation part is taken care of.

Simple, yes, but I hope it helps

ichi

[Shaka_Khan]

Adopt a child.

[Papewaio]

From my old school in NZ:
"Learning is life, life is learning."

Keep learning something new. Lots to do out there in the wide world.

Funny thing is about half an hour ago I was reviewing an IVR message that needs to go on a New Zealand server that will redirect people to my ACD...

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Money

[Devastatin Dave]

For me it used to be goals.

Marry my High School sweetheart - DONE
Become a respected Senior Network Engineer - DONE
Work for a telecommunications company - DONE
Be a manager at a telecommunications company - DONE
Own a mortgage-free home in an area I want - DONE
Have a healthy retirement savings account - DONE
Do a "major" overseas trip every 2 years - DONE
Own a High Performance "Sports Car" - DONE
Become a respected security specialist - DONE
Find and play the best RTS game; MTW - DONE

Holy crap... what motivates me NOW? To be like you!!!

[TheSilverKnight]

OMG! DEVASTATIN' DAVE! YOU'RE BACK!! *Jumps into Dave's arms*

[lars573]

What motivates you ?

Greed.

[PanzerJaeger]

Fear of failure..

[Samurai Waki]

Power.

[Byzantine Prince]

enlightenment

Is anything more important?

[Samurai Waki]

enlightenment

Is anything more important?

Power.

[Byzantine Prince]

Well then let me give you some advice:

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. - Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)

[Samurai Waki]

Michel Foucault was a pansy

[Somebody Else]

Immortality. Akhileus style. I will be remembered.

Well, not necessarily for being a killing machine, but for doing something that will echo down the eons at any rate. Hopefully. Maybe.

[Ja'chyra]

Happiness

[The Stranger]

Immortality. Akhileus style. I will be remembered.

Well, not necessarily for being a killing machine, but for doing something that will echo down the eons at any rate. Hopefully. Maybe.

you save me typing

[TonyJ]

The pursuit of my lifestyle - I will do whatever it takes to maintain it at the level I want it to be.

[edyzmedieval]

Devastatin Dave cuz he came back.....

Well,

A beautiful girl motivates me

[kiwitt]

I have enough money and power - Thanks Gawain/others

Some of my earlier goals were before I married my High School Sweetheart

Learn Jujitsu and other self-defense techniques - DONE
Live in another country and have an overseas experience - DONE
Return to my country of Birth: Holland and live there - DONE
Join the Military, in particular the Air Force - DONE

Thanks Dave, I seem to be on the right path, setting goals is still a good thing, I can add

Be happy with myself - DONE
Be a "mentor" to junior work collegues - DONE
Go to a "Formula One" race meeting - PLANNED (2006)

I now have a couple of new goals too.

Learn something new / Enlightenment - Thanks Papawaio/BP,
Get Fitter, lower my weight, be healthier - Thanks Ichi

[IrishMike]

I am motivated by my desire to be the best in the world in everything I do. But then again I am a extreme perfectionist.

[Kagemusha]

Obsession.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Motorcycles.

Every path leads to this: I work hard at a crappy job to get money to go to college to get a good job to get money to buy nice motorcycles.

After that, I'll probably want to travel a lot.

Crazed Rabbit

[AggonyDuck]

The hope that things will just get better and better. (never happens, but I still do it)

[Papewaio]

I have enough money and power - Thanks Gawain/others

Some of my earlier goals were before I married my High School Sweetheart

Learn Jujitsu and other self-defense techniques - DONE
Live in another country and have an overseas experience - DONE
Return to my country of Birth: Holland and live there - DONE
Join the Military, in particular the Air Force - DONE

Thanks Dave, I seem to be on the right path, setting goals is still a good thing, I can add

Be happy with myself - DONE
Be a "mentor" to junior work collegues - DONE
Go to a "Formula One" race meeting - PLANNED (2006)

I now have a couple of new goals too.

Learn something new / Enlightenment - Thanks Papawaio/BP,
Get Fitter, lower my weight, be healthier - Thanks Ichi

You can add

Inspiration to others / DOING.

Quite an impressive list you have done.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Love, friends, good music, fresh air... plenty of things. Unfortunately, the contrary is also valid. (After all, I'm both a dragon and a gemini. )
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[Duke Malcolm]

My goals include becoming a Master of Science, becoming a senior officer in the Army or Navy, becoming Chief of the Defence Staff, becoming a Cabinet Minister, becoming a life peer, becoming an hereditary lord (preferably Duke or Marquess), own vast estates in Britain (to provide for me when out of work) and become Governor of the Cayman Islands or Jamaica or Canada.

[Beirut]

What motivates me is that no matter how bad things are at the moment, I will, eventually, have time to just sit down by myself and enjoy some peace and quiet and think about... whatever.