[davismwfl]

Find your "currency". By currency I don't mean money, but we all do things for different reasons, and a lot of time money isn't the one that will motivate us most, those reasons are our currency.

Some examples of things that I do to keep me motivated:

- Not letting people down, motivates me more than how much money I can potentially make (money motivates me later). So I tell lots of people what I am doing.

- My ability to do things for people in my community is also a motivator for me, I find a way to tie what I am doing to a goal there too. This isn't always as easy to be fair to find it as my community is rural and not high tech in anyway.

- Kinda like with the first point, I also like to find early customers and make some basic commitments to them which motivates me as well. I'll make commitments super early in the idea stage, that pressure makes me more motivated to push through. And I setup future meetings early on so that I have to show up and talk too someone about it, which means I don't want to be embarrassed so I'll work harder.

A lot of people use the act of telling other people what you are doing and knowing they will keep asking you for updates as motivation. I definitely use this as you can see.