How to keep yourself motivated

I found the best way to motivate myself is the burning desire to succeed. The sense of "there is NO future if I don't get this thing successful" is the best motivator.

I think sometimes, people get lazy due to a good job they have. That's why you don't see a lot of IT professionals get off their ass and startup a company. Most often, it is not because they don't have the talent, but because they just don't have that need.

Adverse situation could be the single best thing in your life. If you know you don't have a backup plan, you would just charge forward and make it happen.

So I would say, get yourself out of the comfort zone and just do it. If you don't have time to work on it, MAKE TIME!

Well if you have this question poking around "what would be if", the best way is to create it and discover what is it; most likely for the first time you will learn that there is something similar in existence already, once you have the complete picture.

There is no question about the fact, that because you are working alone you will have to sacrifice yourself, hence love towards what you do is a must, and you really need to be self-dedicated to it.

Going with the most optimal path, you will have to create processes, infrastructure and procedures by which you can work towards achieving the greater goal, ultimately all your ideas would unite into the single website, by which you will reach enlightenment.

Precisely speaking, you need to establish a fully functional framework which is the way you are going to materialize your idea and stick it it. For example, Visual Studio, Ruby on Rails / Ruby Mine, PHP / Nusphere, and you shall use cloud platform with automatic build, configuration management, and you shall take advantage of cheap cloud servers from AWS, Rackspace, HP Cloud and Windows Azure, make your website scalable, as well make sure that you are very happy with what your website do.

And when doing social networking, you shall remember that facebook has two faces - one, which is the analytically designed profile, and second - which is the wall with timeline. By combining these two into one, you will discover the final truth how to implement bond with the machine, the cloud, yourself and others.

Also, be careful with sharing your business with wrong people. You will need to actually try at least 10 people to actually find one which can have shares in the same business, as for the startup.

well, i'm a desmotivated person...but is sth natural in me, since i was a child. but 4 o 5 years ago I decided to find a solution for my problem, and dude, the best way to increase my motivation was: -try to keep fit ( i know that seems stupid, but your brain works better, i promise) -mark small objectives, maybe in your job or in your own project..but be flexible don't hit yourself if you can't do some objective, but tried hard ok? -make good friends, people that give you good energy, if is necessary change your job (if you can, of course) -and be a good friend help anothers person with is code problems or something like that.. -and finally believe in yourselve, always, everyday, everybreath your mind can change your way of thinking.

i hope it would be helpful. sorry for my bad english, i'm trying to improve. :)

It's understandable that your innate resistance to change is affecting your motivation. My advices are:

1. Think about how you would feel if you learn tomorrow that someone else has implemented your idea and become successful. That's what you're waiting for right now. So jump in and work on your idea
2. A day job can be very addictive, but tell yourself that change is inevitable. I'm not encouraging you to quit the job, YMMV, but it doesn't harm to think about it.
3. Maybe the idea needs a little re-thinking. Maybe you will find the motivation when you find an idea good enough to pursue. The best thing to do at this point, is try to list what all could go wrong, and try to address each of the concerns individually. This will also boost the confidence you have in the idea.
4. Read to find Inspiration.

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I used to be in the same boat until a while ago when I jumped in and started hacking on the idea. Ideas dont sell, Implementations do. PS: I quit my job a week ago and am sitting in the garage coding. Hopefully, things will turn out well. Good luck to you.

It depends. I have a family and a day job, but I continue to work on my side project, mostly for fun, because my day job is not very rewarding, and also because I want to learn the new technology I'm using.

I also am hopeful that it may become a successful business.

Finding time is difficult. I work on it from 10pm to 2am every night for the past 2 months.

The biggest motivator for me is when I get a new user.

I like to read great quotes. It motivate me.

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got!" – Alan Scott

Some links

http://www.facebook.com/StartupQuotes

http://www.facebook.com/StartupQuoteSG

http://www.facebook.com/Quotes.Business