Motivation Thread

[ZAK]

Had a quick search and don't think there's a thread similar to this here so thought I'd start it.

As a lot of members on here are quite successful in there own right, I'd be interested to see how everyone stays hungry and motivated. Also who has actual concrete short term/long term goals.

I was always skeptical of this stuff until I met my fiancée's Dad. He started with nothing and now he's a very successful entrepreneur with millions in businesses and property. I asked how he started and he explains it all started with this one book, so about 12 months ago I started reading Napolean Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", as I digested it and started applying the methods to my own life I began to see a gradual shift in my mindset and found that this shit actually works.
Now I'm reading literature or listening to podcasts most days and slowly phasing out my bad habits.

What about you guys?

[Risk10k]

Music; Listen to new shit everyday, new bands, re-visit things and never get stuck in rut. Helps with my writing immensely.
Training; Facebook hammers out some amazing shit daily, along with YouTube etc. Don't even have to look.
Life; I'm taking as much away as I can from one of my bosses at the moment, he's not directly done anything to help but working with him has really helped me get my shit together financially.
Mindset; Drugs. I do a lot of drugs.

[Ash]

Funny i was just thinking about this today, ill try and keep this short so as not to bore anyone, basically started as a under achiever at school got shit reports and i think i got a B in Plastics and Ds everywhere else, was a semi street kid in my teen years hanging out with every shit bloke drug dealer, criminal, graffiti artist in Perth. Fast forward till i was 19 and my old man did a runner on a bank (may he rest in peace) and left me and my sister with $5000 each, obviously i wanted to buy a car and look cool but my old lady (may she rest in peace) made me buy a house and use the cash as a deposit. i paid $95,000 for a house near the city in 1992. I worked all of that time just moderate jobs to pay the mortgage and bills, ive used the equity to buy more properties and rented them out, fast forward till now im 42 and in 2 days i will be paying my last mortgage payment on my house (due to the sale of investment property), its a shit 1960s house but its mine and now worth $650,000. I wish i could meet up with my high school teachers and show them that i actually made something from nothing. (you wont believe my school reports)

I guess the moral of my story is no matter how shit you are as a kid with a bit of street smarts, hard work and logic you can get somewhere. My sister was an A student and went to uni for six years and had high paying jobs for years but is now is a single mum with no house or money, my advice is to buy property ASAP (smartly) not toys to start with, your toys will come later, be happy with a less than fashionable house remember its yours so if its shit you can fix it up as you go, dont worry what the guy across the road has, just make the best of what you have.

I could go on i have had a few different business over the years all have been successful but i have no formal training just wanted to do it and did, dont let anyone tell you that you cant.

(sorry for the rant)

PS i have one of the best Mortgage brokers around so if you want details let me know.

[Satan]

what does doing a runner on a bank involve?

[R3N]

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[Miggy]

Goal setting is paramount, write down your goals and how you are going to achieve them starting from the end goal and work back from there with small goal milestones in-between with rewards you have decided on as you reach each milestone.



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[Ash]

what does doing a runner on a bank involve?

He split up with my old lady when i was 9 he started a music shop in rockingham then had another relationship failure when i was about 18, he borrowed some money from a bank (personal loan i think) then left the country and moved to Switzerland. Had all sorts of strange people in suits knocking on my mums door looking for him for a while. He didnt come back to Australia till my mum passed away in 2005 (he came back to bond with me which was great he was a top bloke), must be a limit on chasing people because he was setting himself up in Perth again teaching music at a primary school, no one came looking for him, he had a heart attack in 2012.

[adrenalin]

Basically working in shit jobs earning stuff all was the motivaiton i needed.

Was working in a warehouse at 18 for 30k a year to now working both in China and WA for Roy Hill and being able to afford a house and my track toy.

Also my old man is motivation for me as he started out with nothing and now owns a fair few properties and a business.

One day.