How Exactly Do You Get Motivated?

Listen to eye of the tiger OR this

just say yourself "I am gonna own this <put the activity in here>"

I motivate myself by saying, if I don't do anything now if I die today, no one will remember me. And I want just one person to remember me.

Turn off your distractions, it's very easy to simply derp around on the computer, phone, etc. Try to schedule "project time" for 1-2 hours a day (but per week works also) to wholly focus on a creative endeavor. Don't be shy about your "project time" and refer to it as such with your friends/family; talking about it openly will help keep yourself accountable.

We have more distractions and obligatory tasks today than in any other time in history, it takes a little planning to allow yourself to turn down the white noise in your life.

Listening to music.

Leave your mind in blank, and do something you like for a couple of hours and completely unrelated to what you are trying to get motivated to do.

For example, I cry in my bed for hours before drawing so I don't remember how shit my work is! :D

I just do it. The sooner I do it, the sooner I can do something else what's more fun. Music helps, yeah.

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A grants you 1000 motivation points but you can only use the code once. A sound effect will confirm the success of the code input.

Good question. I am a pretty lukewarm, mild person, I don't get passionate about anything easily. For me, starting something is the highest threshold. Once I finally get off my butt ( lo and behold, lack of discipline rears its ugly, yet fluffy head) and start something, I generally do keep doing it, because I get into it and start to get on a roll. I do need to make sure nothing in particular distracts me (playing music distracts me, e.g.).

sex.

EDIT: seriously though, ive struggled with that my whole life. I don't have anything i really enjoy or doing(besides tv + videogames). So i've tried plenty of things, nothing really perked my interests. I did recently find that making my brother and family happy is a great feeling so ive been working on that.

10 Do nothing. Do exactly nothing

20 Wait until you're so bored that even the most boring assignment is fun

30 Start the assignment

40 When you're distracted & no longer capable of continuing the assignment goto 10

tell one of your friends what you're wanting to do.
then promise to give him/her $20 if you don't do it within a certain ammount of time.

You seem relatively young.

Here, have this: Top Five Regrets of The Dying

Should help you prioritize.

And no, I'm not joking. Trust me, I've done a fair amount in my life at this point, but until recently I haven't prioritized right. That's changing now, though.

Mirror's Edge motivated me after playing the game. I felt like jumping of building and killing security guards.

Fun and/or money. And money works 'cause I can buy fun with it. ^^

Well, if you ever watched Highschool DXD.. you would know what I would suggest :P

light a candle under your balls, thatll get you moving.

When I need motivation I look for something that can make me feel the most useless person in the world. Then I watch one of my favourite films or listen to music that inspires me and makes me motivated. So I feel thankful and I know that I have to make something similar, something that can inspire and motivate people, too. If I won't do that then I don't deserve all the things that inspires me.

For me it's totally random. 90% of the time I don't feel like doing anything.

Listen to Guiles theme and do anything, It will make it Awesome

Flip a coin.

Watch TON of stuff (be it youtube, read a book, or simply listen to music), don't be afraid to try new things (a new genre, a not so played game, etc), once you think you've done enough, even if for a day, talk to a friend, one you know you can talk to without much of an issue, and one that you know will have his own opinion.

Mention him everything you've done, what did you like, what you didn't like, what got you bored, and what stroke your curiousness even if just a bit. If the person is at least a little bit worth it, by then you'll have a crap ton of stuff to think about, and keep you active to pick things up again.

You don't have any friends? Are you a loner like myself? Break the ice, go and talk to whoever you cross on a grocery store, ask his opinion on a product, or just mention how crappy/nice the weather is. You'd be surprised to see how releaving it can be to have at least 5 seconds of meaningful interaction with someone, even if it's like once a month (i try to keep it once every 2 months though).

Still don't like the idea of talking to someone? Vsauce

Philosophy, mainly.

step 1. this, This, Or this

step 2. max volume

step 3. ???

Step 4. MAXIMUM MOTIVATION!

Alt method:
whenever you wake up play this song.

it's not get pumped music, but it kind of puts the day in a weird perspective.