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Note: Don't worry, I am going to spare you guys from enduring another weight loss challenge thread. While it was temporarily successful, it was torture for me as it was for many of you.
If you have had a big goal in life that you were not motivated to do, what reason(s) ultimately helped you achieve the goal?
I am still struggling with getting healthy as is my wife. Neither one of us can find a big enough motivation to help us reach our goals. Nothing in the usual suspects of motivations has consistently worked and it feels like we have tried them all.
I am going to lay out two examples of extreme motivations that would probably work but for obvious reasons are not going to be useful.
Imagine an assassin company was ordered to move me on to my next life, if I did not reach my goal with in one year. In addition they would continually monitor my progress every week and if I failed to maintain the goal, it was curtains time for me. Under that situation I am pretty confident I would reach my goal and maintain it.
A lesson violent option would be if Warren Buffet agreed to give me $500,000 if I reached my goal in one year. In addition he would give $5000 a week if I maintained the goal. I believe that would be sufficient motivation to reach and maintain a goal.
I am sure there are less extreme motivations that would inspire me to reach my goal and maintain it but so far they have eluded me.
If you have had a big goal in life that you were not motivated to do, what reason(s) ultimately helped you achieve the goal?
I am still struggling with getting healthy as is my wife. Neither one of us can find a big enough motivation to help us reach our goals. Nothing in the usual suspects of motivations has consistently worked and it feels like we have tried them all.
I am going to lay out two examples of extreme motivations that would probably work but for obvious reasons are not going to be useful.
Imagine an assassin company was ordered to move me on to my next life, if I did not reach my goal with in one year. In addition they would continually monitor my progress every week and if I failed to maintain the goal, it was curtains time for me. Under that situation I am pretty confident I would reach my goal and maintain it.
A lesson violent option would be if Warren Buffet agreed to give me $500,000 if I reached my goal in one year. In addition he would give $5000 a week if I maintained the goal. I believe that would be sufficient motivation to reach and maintain a goal.
I am sure there are less extreme motivations that would inspire me to reach my goal and maintain it but so far they have eluded me.