What motivates you?

I seem to be on the same page as you, yet I have been diagnosed with severe depression so It may not be the same. Personally, counselling helped me find such an answer, but even talking to someone could help really.

What keeps me going? The thought that it gets better, the thought that people give a damn. Sometimes even the thought that I'm going fur suiting in a while does it. Keep in mind that the future can hold so much.

Maybe I've been overdramatic with this. XwX

I happened to be in the neighborhood when i saw this, here is my advise, i sorry if sound dark but is is in part something that is driving me.

I realized thanks to a friend a while back, that i was falling deep into a dark path, metaphorically speaking i was drowning on a path to a very dark place it felt like, seeing it gave me a deep fear, knowing that if i do not a single thing to save my self given a few years i would have been in a gutter some place dying before my time.

As horrible as it might sound, thinking about what will happen if you do not can be motivation, if not thinking about how an action will improve your life.

Here is my one pence on the subject.

I hope you a good path.

The past is the past, the past creates the present we find ourselves in and the present leads to the future. We the present control the future.
Its a bit difficult to know exactly what to say to you because i don't know what your situation is fully but if you want to make your tomorrow a brighter and better day then you'll have to work for it. Every little thing you do to continue your path, every step any slight measurement in the direction you want to go is an improvement. That should make you happy. If it doesn't then find someone that you can tell, someone you can show or experience your accomplishments with. Getting a new game is nice and all, but if your not happy with just having it all to yourself, if you want or need to make that game that much more special. Then share it, or show it off, talk about it to others, make it an achievement.

The game being your path, you should be happy to becoming close to beating the game. Every little thing you do to come closer to beating your game should be something you could say with pride. Sometimes in a game you have a timer you have to wait on or do something in that amount of time, So if you aren't in the best place to get your goal done then don't worry about it too much. As long as you work at it and keep it in your mind you'll get to it, just don't let it slip away or get distracted by something else.

Another thing, sometimes bad things that happen lead to good things. I moved to another state with my family, was the worst five years of my life. Every day i would think and dream of getting out, leaving all of the bad behind. Took five years, but if i hadn't moved to a new state, if i hadn't spent that five long years in my little hell, i would have never met some good people, friends, and other things. So if your in a place where you can't move or do anything about it, then just keep going, keep your goal in sight and wait for the time to strike.

Hope i helped :3

Funny. I want to work at valve making games and about moving to a new state I know how you feel.

I feel fine ^.^ i actually wouldn't change a thing about my past, its made me who i am. So is that what your goal was? to move out of state and make games for valve? xP if so i hit that right on the nail and wasn't aiming for it lol

Motivation generally comes from the decision of who you want to be as a person and your honest want (or hunger) to become that person.

While you may not have all the steps that will lead you to what you want to be all listed out (finding out those steps is part of your goal-search), knowing who you want to be will give you a ready supply of the “No”s you will need to keep from getting side-tracked.

A guided missile has an internal guidance system that supplies its directional system with two commands -- Yes & No. Yes, when the missile is heading in the right direction and No when it is heading in the wrong direction and wasting time and energy. Knowing who you want to be and sticking to it will be your own internal guidance system whenever you need to make a decision.

If you are interested in being a game designer, then search out someone who is a game designer and find out (Google it, or do library research -- just like you did in school) what steps he/she had to take to get to be where they are now as a game designer. Having a role model to follow makes becoming the person you want to be a whole lot easier than just sitting in your bedroom and wondering what to do.

And lastly, while there are going to be all sorts of obstacles to getting where you want to be in life, if you are hungry enough for what you want (i.e., game designer), then each obstacle you face will be like an added weight when you are weight-lifting -- over-coming the obstacle or problem it will make you stronger.

Strength and Happiness.