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This gives me a short burst of motivation but is don't seem to get around to actual completion of a project and seeing it in use.
Well, what if you started generating revenue, and customers were sharing your stuff all over the world? What could be more motivating than that?
Adequate sleep, ensuring I get up with daylight. Okay so they aren't motivations per say, but without them I suffer, my creativity suffers and my ability to actually do work suffers greatly.
what time do you wake up?, how many hours do you sleep? any strategies for waking up?
Light.
These things are personal, but it is something that helps me. I used to use a standard SAD alarm clock by Phillips, but have since put some Hue light bulbs in my room. I have blackout curtains and the bulbs I have programmed to turn on via a little process on my server, I've been experimenting with ripples and which frequencies to use best, but haven't got nearly enough data yet.
I generally try to always wake up at 7am. The hours of sleep depend on exercise and how tired I felt in the morning (never think at 11pm oh I feel fine!).
Diet mixed with that helps, generally I won't eat after 8pm, unless I'm staying up late!
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Don't you think it's a bit evil to make a profit out of people's lack of self-motivation? I would prefer to give the money to a good cause...
Here's how we look at it: We force you to toe the line at least for a while so that when/if you do fall off your yellow brick road then the motivation Beeminder provided up until that point still seems worth it. Everything we've worked on in building Beeminder has been with the objective of making people succeed and we'd have to be very myopic for it to be otherwise. More on this: http://blog.beeminder.com/perverse O…
When you're talking about motivation, I feel that getting someone to do something to avoid negative consequences will result in low quality work and a begrudging state of mind.
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Here's how we look at it: We force you to toe the line at least for a while so that when/if you do fall off your yellow brick road then the motivation Beeminder provided up until that point still seems worth it. Everything we've worked on in building Beeminder has been with the objective of making people succeed and we'd have to be very myopic for it to be otherwise. More on this: http://blog.beeminder.com/perverse O…
It seems the model is driven by negative reinforcement rather than positive reinforcement. Charity or no charity, I'd prefer a model that rewards staying on track rather than punishing lack of motivation. When you're talking about motivation, I feel that getting someone to do something to avoid negative consequences will result in low quality work and a begrudging state of mind.
But here's our response to that: http://blog.beeminder.com/lift
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It seems the model is driven by negative reinforcement rather than positive reinforcement. Charity or no charity, I'd prefer a model that rewards staying on track rather than punishing lack of motivation. When you're talking about motivation, I feel that getting someone to do something to avoid negative consequences will result in low quality work and a begrudging state of mind.
This is good criticism, and I bet you'll like http://lift.do But here's our response to that: http://blog.beeminder.com/lift