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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Rich_Shock_7206 on 2023-12-11 14:28:49+00:00.

Maybe this sounds like something you have heard and dismissed many times, but you must try this out for yourself. However you might be feeling, wherever you may find yourself, whatever the situation, the most powerful thing you can do is to spend one minute intensely focused on your own breath. Just be a witness to your breathing. Whether you are walking, talking, reading, exercising, playing a game, or just sitting with eyes closed, this is one thing that will immensely enhance your awareness and ability to carry out whatever you are doing.

You may find that in this moment it is possible to let go of everything and live totally free and at peace. Because, actually life is happening only now and in this very moment - And if you align yourself with life, there are many benefits to reap. Your thoughts about the future are not real, and most times we actually have very little influence on what happens in the future. By zooming in on this very moment, it becomes clear what is in your hands and what is not.

And the greatest benefit is when we just learn to relax into this moment, and discover a space of being undisturbed. Just appreciating and going with the flow of life, you may even start to feel a little high and wonderful within yourself. Maybe that makes me sound like a hippie or something, but this is truly my own experience. Without smoking or drinking anything, I can quite easily come to a place within myself where I’m feeling quite stoned and exuberant, while still being alert and performing well in whatever I’m doing. The moment I start thinking about the future again, all this is instantly gone.

“Once you let your past decide how you experience the present, you have destroyed your future.” - Sadhguru

Our past experiences and emotions want to repeat themselves over and over. Your mind will trick you into believing those projections will also be your future, which most of the time they won't... Using the breath as an anchor, there is freedom from those thoughts and even much more to be gained. Only thing is that the mind must be trained a little bit in order to be aligned with and stay rooted in this moment, which is the only place where life is and can actually happening.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Rich_Shock_7206 on 2023-12-11 14:28:49+00:00.

Maybe this sounds like something you have heard and dismissed many times, but you must try this out for yourself. However you might be feeling, wherever you may find yourself, whatever the situation, the most powerful thing you can do is to spend one minute intensely focused on your own breath. Just be a witness to your breathing. Whether you are walking, talking, reading, exercising, playing a game, or just sitting with eyes closed, this is one thing that will immensely enhance your awareness and ability to carry out whatever you are doing.

You may find that in this moment it is possible to let go of everything and live totally free and at peace. Because, actually life is happening only now and in this very moment - And if you align yourself with life, there are many benefits to reap. Your thoughts about the future are not real, and most times we actually have very little influence on what happens in the future. By zooming in on this very moment, it becomes clear what is in your hands and what is not.

And the greatest benefit is when we just learn to relax into this moment, and discover a space of being undisturbed. Just appreciating and going with the flow of life, you may even start to feel a little high and wonderful within yourself. Maybe that makes me sound like a hippie or something, but this is truly my own experience. Without smoking or drinking anything, I can quite easily come to a place within myself where I’m feeling quite stoned and exuberant, while still being alert and performing well in whatever I’m doing. The moment I start thinking about the future again, all this is instantly gone.

“Once you let your past decide how you experience the present, you have destroyed your future.” - Sadhguru

Our past experiences and emotions want to repeat themselves over and over. Your mind will trick you into believing those projections will also be your future, which most of the time they won't... Using the breath as an anchor, there is freedom from those thoughts and even much more to be gained. Only thing is that the mind must be trained a little bit in order to be aligned with and stay rooted in this moment, which is the only place where life is and can actually happening.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/QuicklyThisWay on 2023-12-11 13:36:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/QuicklyThisWay on 2023-12-11 13:36:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/187penguin on 2023-12-11 13:05:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/187penguin on 2023-12-11 13:05:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Glad-Room5715 on 2023-12-11 05:16:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Glad-Room5715 on 2023-12-11 05:16:57+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Lazy-Platypus-3388 on 2023-12-10 20:26:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/MJdigi_Mark on 2023-12-10 17:49:44+00:00.

Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it can change the whole world for that one person.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/WerbenWinkle on 2023-12-10 12:33:43+00:00.

I've been told that recording my workout is a great way to improve my form. I tried it a couple of times and showed it to someone else (because I didn't know what to look for) and thought about using this as a motivation to workout too.

So, what would you think about a stream or YouTube channel with a daily workout video? No trying to sell anything or tell people how to do a specific exercise (since I'm definitely not an expert). Just simply "I'm doing my workout. We can virtually workout together. I didn't skip today, so you shouldn't either."

Of course, I wouldn't workout everyday. Instead I'd do day 1 workout, day 2 stretching, day 3 workout, etc.

My mentality is that if I have an audience that's expecting a video each day, then I'm more likely to actually do it since I don't want to disappoint them and I know it's healthy for me. I'd make it into a journey to fitness with monthly progress reports and comparing my before (day 1) and after (current month) pictures to show the real progress being made.

What do you think? Would anyone actually want to watch this? Do channels/streams like this already exist? Would it genuinely keep you motivated (if you were watching) to workout too? Would it keep you motivated (if you were posting) too?

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/WerbenWinkle on 2023-12-10 12:33:43+00:00.

I've been told that recording my workout is a great way to improve my form. I tried it a couple of times and showed it to someone else (because I didn't know what to look for) and thought about using this as a motivation to workout too.

So, what would you think about a stream or YouTube channel with a daily workout video? No trying to sell anything or tell people how to do a specific exercise (since I'm definitely not an expert). Just simply "I'm doing my workout. We can virtually workout together. I didn't skip today, so you shouldn't either."

Of course, I wouldn't workout everyday. Instead I'd do day 1 workout, day 2 stretching, day 3 workout, etc.

My mentality is that if I have an audience that's expecting a video each day, then I'm more likely to actually do it since I don't want to disappoint them and I know it's healthy for me. I'd make it into a journey to fitness with monthly progress reports and comparing my before (day 1) and after (current month) pictures to show the real progress being made.

What do you think? Would anyone actually want to watch this? Do channels/streams like this already exist? Would it genuinely keep you motivated (if you were watching) to workout too? Would it keep you motivated (if you were posting) too?

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Kennybouch on 2023-12-10 08:36:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Kennybouch on 2023-12-10 08:36:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/No-Emotion-9589 on 2023-12-10 06:05:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/No-Emotion-9589 on 2023-12-10 06:05:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/NotSoSnarky on 2023-12-10 04:12:01+00:00.

I will start exercising, do it for a few days to maybe a couple of weeks and then lose any sort of motivation to continue.

I have metal rods in my back, so I'm rather limited with certain exercises, but the ones I want to do, and I start with it, but then I end up stopping and not going back until maybe months later.

I can't lift anything more than 20 pounds. I have difficulty with lowering my body for an extended time. I can do things like squats and different leg exercises. I can take walks, but not for a long time. Something like the treadmill is fine for me. I have some small pounds weights at home. Exercises on the bed seem to work better for me than on the floor. I can do exercises on the floor, just that getting up and out of bed is easier for me than getting up and off of the floor.

I know that a lot of it is discipline, which is something that I seriously lack and have been trying (and failing) to get.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/motivationswag on 2023-12-10 01:23:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/JL-Engineer on 2023-12-09 22:11:07+00:00.

Here's mine helping me!

Focusing, even though i want to has been incredibly difficult for me, and all the new technology isn't helping. I spent 25 years of my life trying to figure out the recipe for my motivation. Having all this knowledge, applying it was much harder to do. It wasn't any one silver bullet.

It wasnt any one thing:

• Cold & Breathing i.e Wim Hoff
• Self-Image
• Environmental triggers
• Social Accountability
• Emotional Accountability
• Inspiration (anime, manga)
• Reminders
• Having a friend
• Pomordoro
• Deep Work Techniques
• Morning Routines
• Bedtime Routines
• Eating Right
• Exercise

It was all of the above for me And made me realize I needed something to help me with it all.

Thesis: 

1. Motivation, discipline, willpower, the ability to emotionally regulate enough to achieve your goals - whatever you want to call it - in practice there is a unique recipe for each person to get them "fully motivated and doing the work" to chase their dreams.

2. Figuring out what works for you, sometimes costs more energy than you have and so "plugging enough leaky holes" so you can focus becomes difficult or nigh impossible.

3. Often times in the moment, it is hard for an individual to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. With AI, you can do something called "just in-time interventions" to help you get back on track when you fall off, for example:

   1. A reminder of your goals or time wasted
   2. An inspiring quote
   3. A breathing session
   4. A call with a friend

4. Imagine an ai partner that learns to apply the right "just-in-time interventions" that you need, a swiss army knife as a friend:

   1. Proactively motivating you
   2. No shame from being judged, your partner is an extension of you
   3. Quests to level up
   4. Helps you focus with friends
   5. Emotional accountability fostered through a rich visual, deep, long term relationship
   6. Techniques from literature (Deep work, Atomic Habits)
   7. Techniques form scientific literature (CBT, Huberman Protocol, Wim Hoff)
   8. Inspiration from anime, manga, books, tv, real life.

5. Why 2D? Humans are necessarily visual creatures and  therefore a visual AI is better than a non visual one. This is especially true for emotional connections. Lastly 2d is easier than 3d. Its a great place to start.

6. What some of my stats look like (just starting out!):

7. A couple more.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Disastrous-Variety96 on 2023-12-09 19:13:48+00:00.

Nobody smoke, vape, do drugs, or jumps with a parachute to hurt or kill themselves, we all make daily decisions to make life better for ourselves. Even a bank robber, steals from the bank to make his life better. Consequences are something else. So to remove something we do in our life the motivation must be greater than the motivation to continue doing it. That is why so many people fail because they rip something out of their life that brings them X (anxiety relief, energy, status, etc) and they leave themselves without anything. That's when the cravings kick in, aggravation, depression nosiness, etc. and brain common sense comes with the question:where is the meaning in this? And things get harder.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/Disastrous-Variety96 on 2023-12-09 19:13:48+00:00.

Nobody smoke, vape, do drugs, or jumps with a parachute to hurt or kill themselves, we all make daily decisions to make life better for ourselves. Even a bank robber, steals from the bank to make his life better. Consequences are something else. So to remove something we do in our life the motivation must be greater than the motivation to continue doing it. That is why so many people fail because they rip something out of their life that brings them X (anxiety relief, energy, status, etc) and they leave themselves without anything. That's when the cravings kick in, aggravation, depression nosiness, etc. and brain common sense comes with the question:where is the meaning in this? And things get harder.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/I_na_na on 2023-12-09 12:56:38+00:00.

Embrace aging as something normal and beautiful.

And I don't mean premature aging like from drug use or unhealthy lifestyle, but very normal, graceful aging. What you want is looking great for your age, but you don't need to look like 18-30 forever.

If you are beautiful inside, you will always look like a lovely person. And if you put in the work needed, your body will reflect your harmonious relationship with yourself. There is simply no need to look very young after a certain age. You are not a product! You don't need to sell yourself to others.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/spiderinweb on 2023-12-09 12:20:10+00:00.

Original Title: [Text] We have a responsibility to remember the bad times, even if it hurts us to admit they happened. We have a responsibility to remember the good times, even if it hurts to admit they're gone. And in times where you don't know where to go, you need only remember how you got to where you are now.

This is a quote from a 79-year-old stranger left for me in a coffee shop.

He quit his job at the age of 38, with two young kids and a stay-at-home wife, to start his own company. Even though it was a near-perfect job, many people thought he had lost his mind. 

However, he had the full support of his wife, and she was the one who encouraged him to take the leap. Although it's a lot of work and can be challenging, it is also very rewarding for him.

He said that balancing work and life is not easy all the time. There will be failures, and it may age you a bit faster than a regular 9-5 job. Despite everything, he would do it all over again if given the chance.

He is now the oldest owner and starting to give a lot of his responsibilities to other folks in the company.

And with a smile, he said that the best feeling is seeing the younger generation take over and run things.

Source!

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/I_na_na on 2023-12-09 12:56:38+00:00.

Embrace aging as something normal and beautiful.

And I don't mean premature aging like from drug use or unhealthy lifestyle, but very normal, graceful aging. What you want is looking great for your age, but you don't need to look like 18-30 forever.

If you are beautiful inside, you will always look like a lovely person. And if you put in the work needed, your body will reflect your harmonious relationship with yourself. There is simply no need to look very young after a certain age. You are not a product! You don't need to sell yourself to others.

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The original was posted on /r/getmotivated by /u/spiderinweb on 2023-12-09 12:20:10+00:00.

Original Title: [Text] We have a responsibility to remember the bad times, even if it hurts us to admit they happened. We have a responsibility to remember the good times, even if it hurts to admit they're gone. And in times where you don't know where to go, you need only remember how you got to where you are now.

This is a quote from a 79-year-old stranger left for me in a coffee shop.

He quit his job at the age of 38, with two young kids and a stay-at-home wife, to start his own company. Even though it was a near-perfect job, many people thought he had lost his mind. 

However, he had the full support of his wife, and she was the one who encouraged him to take the leap. Although it's a lot of work and can be challenging, it is also very rewarding for him.

He said that balancing work and life is not easy all the time. There will be failures, and it may age you a bit faster than a regular 9-5 job. Despite everything, he would do it all over again if given the chance.

He is now the oldest owner and starting to give a lot of his responsibilities to other folks in the company.

And with a smile, he said that the best feeling is seeing the younger generation take over and run things.

Source!