Financial Freedumb and Brownie

When I was told my site was completely messed up this past Saturday, I panicked.  “Oh no!  My site is messed up!”  I rushed to find out what was wrong.  Lo and Behold, I confirmed my page didn’t display properly on Safari.  (Nifty tool)  First thoughts that ran through my mind, “All that work, and maybe I have to revert back to scratch.”  Luckily, I found out that one of the files on my blog was messed up by me.  I’m not sure where, but I just replaced it, and just like magic, everything displayed properly.  Tuned it up a bit, being more careful, and everything is back to normal.

This led me to the question, “Why can’t I treat everything in my life like this site?”  For example, WORK.

I’ll admit, work bores me.  If you didn’t know that by now, read this.  So how do I still keep doing my job?  Well 2 things:  Fear of failure and my customers.

Fear of failure drives me to finish my work.  If I don’t finish, I look bad, my manager looks bad, and it just bothers me.  But if my work didn’t matter, than I just put it off, aka slack.  Fortunately, I have customers, the 2nd motivator.  I talk to my customers and have a relationship.  It pains me when I let them down.  I guess maybe that’s why I can excel in customer support.

Outside of work, if I’m “into it,” then I can spend hours on it, ex. this blog, my car, and fishing.  But give me some dull project, and it can sit on the shelf for months.  I need to find more motivating factors.  Take a look at what motivates SingleMa…Now that’s a good list of motivators.  I must admit, when I got my dog, it changed my life dramatically.  Suddenly, I had someone that depended on me…My dog motivates me–to set a schedule, exercise, and get things done on time.  Didn’t expect that benefit from my furry friend.

So what motivates you?