Who can define motivation. What motivates you to get out of bed when you're sick, dignosed with a chronic disease, have depression?

I have to. As much as I might like to stay in bed all day and wallow in self-pity, I know that I can't. I have to go to work, I have appointments and responsibilities. If I stay in bed and ignore them, they will only build up and cause me to be more depressed. I combat my depression with reason and logic. There is absolutely no excuse to stay in bed, no excuse not to do the things I have to do. They HAVE to be done and that is the bottom line. I just make myself get the hell up and do it. How? I just do it. I swing my legs over the edge of the bed and stand up.
However, when you're sick, you're often better off staying in bed. Getting up and getting overworked or overtired when you're unhealthy will only make you sicker, for longer. So if you're sick, take a well-deserved break. Laze around, catch up on your soaps, drug yourself up and sleep.
My definition of motivation is the knowledge that I'll just be infinitely more screwed if I don't do the dumb things I've got to do.

I am motivated to get up and do my very best
at everything because I have friends who arent
doing so well and I feel as though it is my
job to stay strong for them. Though I am not
feeling very well (mentally and emotionally)
I tend to ignore my feelings because my friends
are more important to me... Its important to
be the "best" me.
So thats what motivates me....being the best
person that I can be...and if I stay in bed
and drown in my own misery....thats not being
the best me!

One cannot be motivated without a motive. If one is cold, they are motivated to get up and close the door; the motive of comfort.

What's your motive? Is it to wallow and laze about? what do you want? How will it happen? Every day starts when the feet hit the floor. If they never hit the floor, then it's a day;s life without purpose.

My life NEEDS to have meaning, even if that meaning is nothing more than a dishdrain full of clean dishes and a mowed lawn. One little goal- a motive is all I need.


Mr(wake up, daisy-head)Sensitive

Motivation means to know what the bottom line is and to do whatever's necessary to achieve it! (In a nutshell)

I know, because I'm a salesperson who is driven by motivation to succeed (salespeople out there will understand), and, to add insult to injury, I was laid off on 1/31 and have not been gainfully employed since then.

I was, and have been for my entire career, a Hotel Sales & Catering Executive/Sales Manager

I am motivated DAILY to check the want ads in the papers of any city near me, as far as I would be willing to commute.

I am motived to actually drive to these cities and place applications at places where I would like to be employed.

I am motivated to find out who the Managers of these properties are, so I can send them personal letters with my resume...75% of available Executive postions are never posted in the newspaper.

Motivation is whatever drives you to achieve a certain result, as I said in my first sentence. It doesn't matter what the result is - whether to toilet train a child (or puppy!), get up in the morning, or plan a menu for the week...it's how you look at the importance of what you need to do!

Having been a trainer in various occupations I've held, I feel that I'm also a good motivator...which has helped me in my Sales career.