Honestly looks like Boeing wrote that motivation 🙊🙊🤭

Growth Manager

Consultant

Bhai merko to motivational lagra hai ye bhi. Where's the BS??

Product Manager

and the abraham lincoln photo will be perfect-bit addition to it

Security Analyst

Friday motivation! You can achieve everything you want in life.

Founder

Friday motivation! You can achieve everything you want in life.- Grapevine

Life has become so dry and meaningless nowadays. Struggle connects us on some level. I’d love to hear your stories of struggle and how you overcame it.

Here’s my story.
I studied B.E for 7 years because of backlogs. Every year was a new batch, no friends. Extreme depression, humiliation everywhere. Isolated myself from an extremely judgmental society. 
Confidence had no meaning in my life. 
Somehow struggled and cleared all the backlogs. Studied programming and web design. Started working for free.
After 1 year, first salary was 2k per month.
Then 18k. Then 30k.
I always felt dumb because of the backlogs. Want to rectify it. So went to the US with the only admit I got. Studied my ass off. GPA 3.95. But I was broke again. Cried my eyes out multiple times because I had no money for food. Couldn’t tell this to parents.

Found a job later after many many applications. 
Happiest moment of achievement was when I bought my first 43 inch LED TV. With my own money.

Current pay: over 2L / mo.

Tell me your story of hard work and difficulty

Product Designer

Some Monday Motivation

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I’ll start first: 

“The greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent. They handle the immediate problem and still make sure to secure the future.”

[Thread] Share one quote that stuck with you.

"The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed"

Software Engineer

The past year has been the best!
I'm engaged to my long-term partner, making the first person I loved, my last.
I'm working in my dream company and dream role 
I've finally moved out and have a healthy distance from my controlling family
I wish I could say all of the above but you know what they say "You plan. God laughs'
My life has become a joke. 

After years and years of nurturing my relationship and working on myself,  I've achieved nothing personally or professionally. Being an overthinker, I'd detail everything from plan 'A' to plan 'Z' to ensure my dreams come true. I had an extraordinarily amazing relationship but when it came down to marriage he didn't have time to even think about it. I have a brilliant resume filled with distinction grades, extracurriculars, and leadership roles, and yet I couldn't score an interview let alone be shortlisted for any role I wanted. With no choice, I'm stuck in a job that I absolutely hate and have no interest in! And finally, after 26 years of living with my family and growing up to be a responsible adult and doing everything and more, they ask me, they still think the worst of me, call me names, hardly acknowledge my presence, and make me feel guilty for barely living my life. 

I'm honestly so emotionally drained and feel like my whole life has been a struggle, hoping for things to get better someday. But all I feel is stuck. Everyone around me is moving on with their lives - getting married, moving to a new city/country, getting roles in dream companies and I'm nowhere close to anything I want. 

Being a practical and logical person I would usually not take advice from random strangers on the internet but I'm keeping an open mind and I'd love to hear your thoughts on my depressing life! 💔 

People below 25 yrs don't bother commenting, unless you want to start a crowd fund for my therapy. 

P.S. The last para is a joke. Don't come at me about it in the comment section. I do need therapy though, but can't afford it. Not from an experienced psychologist at least.

Don't read if you believe in "dreams"

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

My current salary is 42LPA. I am from IIT, have 7 years of experience and work in product. Honestly, my value in the market is higher than what I’m being paid but I am very demotivated to optimise for that. When I do see less deserving people minting more money, I feel that I am doing injustice to myself and playing the wrong hand.

More and more though, the thought of earning more money chokes me a bit. I have dreams of building something of my own - that gives me control to build something my way and freedom to live my life as per my terms. But the mindset of “zyada paisa pareshaani hai” doesn’t leave me.

My family also is not dependent on me and whatever is needed from my side, I actively contribute to. I also lack any motivation to focus on my investments and see my money grow. I just have money sitting around in my bank account purely for nothing

I also look at my lifestyle choices from time to time and go into existential debate of why we need the things that we do. This has come to a point where I really do not understand my relationship with money and why we earn and spend it. 

For me at this point, it’s just a show for the world. There’s very little that you need, and really no limit to what you want to show. And I just don’t see a point in it anymore.

I am demotivated to work to earn more money

Hey @Hungryninja  
 Extremely relatable and very beautiful write up 
  
 I get the trouble you face. When you’ve almost figured out what you like and what you don’t like (that money isn’t thaaat needle moving, I have basic needs) but at the same time, the opportunity cost of relaxing is too high - everybody from your batch will remind you of how far you can go, and the middle class boy in you will find it difficult to stomach letting go of all the money, even though you can make it  
  
 Went through this at one point. I have ultimately sided with money. I cannot sit back and relax. Money will only unlock a lot of foreign travel and good lifestyle for me. But more than that, I am lucky to be in a position that allows me to earn money easier than other people do. So I’ll make it, help extended family and people who cannot earn as easily, because at least in a country like India, it’s almost a responsibility. We’re not fucking Europe. 
  
 I’ll just not kill myself for it as much as I used to :)

Investment Associate

Product Owner

A final year student

I made a lot of mistakes in my life
Never ever worked hard to my fullest potential
Didn't studied well even though I had potential during JEE
Keep getting attracted to girls(very few times), even though I am training myself not to.

Becoming emotionally down often
Feeling guilty of not being able to have someone to talk to.

What I simply want is to work to my fullest potential without getting attracted to the other gender so that there are no distractions and becoming mentally strong to the point that I don't need anyone else continuously present in my life for me.

There has to be a way
Almost everyone around me are so strong
My gut believes I don't have that much time left
I just want to fix everything for my parents and my brother
And leaving with a pride and honor of a MAN.

How to Forgive OneSelf?

Midweek motivation 🫠

Was reading some trash over the weekend but found this gem. Kinda late but anyone still in need of motivation juice, here it is.

Monday motivation- Fuck them up!

I posted a rant about how useless this time logging feature is in my current company and while scrolling LinkedIn I saw a guy asking for job as he’s jobless since past 12 months, “full stack dev” “primary bread earner in the family”. 
And then there’s numerous people working countless hours for a legit looped job, every single day. 
I understand this statement is highly debatable and you can always work harder and get a position to be a little free from the race, but don’t forget to be grateful for what you have today.

Be Grateful, Have sense of what’s enough.

System Administrator

Welcome to Get Motivated's Private Community

My friends here, after having observed some common trends emerging in society today, it's very clear to me that being simple & normal is the best strategy. 

Look at the world around us:
- Attention spans are fucked. People cannot listen for 10 seconds without glancing over phone. There is very little recognition of the human in the 'other' person. 
- There is very little recognition of one self. Intoxicants, indiscipline, mindless activities are the sign of times. It's okay to do these. It's human to be silly. But it mustn't be your 24*7. 
- People are woke, but they're not awake. They'll come to you with a pitchfork as soon as they hear something that irks them, but barely try to understand your view.

These are disparate problems, and just some examples. 
The surest way to guard yourself is to **avoid doing what everyone else is doing**.

Be aware. Be disciplined. Exercise, eat well, sleep well, think well. 
Be simple, as you were a few years ago, or most people were mentally before the coming of the short term dopamine hit economy.

Random musings, thoughts welcome :)

Just be normal. Maintain your sanity. We will succeed in the long run.

Corporate Strategist

Some Monday Motivaton

Low cgpa No Skills about to start 4th year

जीतना हक़ है तुम्हारा

बहुत हार देख लीं तुमने,
बहुत ताने सुन लिए तुमने,
बहुत कर लिया सबके लिए,
अब बारी है ख़ुद को बदलने की,
अब बारी है ख़ुद के लिए कुछ करने की
अब बारी है ख़ुद में साहस भरने की।
लोग तुम्हें स्वार्थी बोलेंगे तैयार रहना,
लोग तुम्हें अभिमानी बोलेंगे तैयार रहना,
लोग तुम्हें अनदेखा करेंगे तैयार रहना।

ये सब ज़रूरी है एक बड़ी जीत के लिए
खुद को हर रोज़ याद दिलाइये,
'जीतना हक़ है तुम्हारा'।

Monday motivation

Tech Lead

Process Associate

The right motivation :)

The paradox of wanting not to exist yet actively avoiding death is evidence that one ultimately wishes for hope rather than disappearance. It’s the unconscious’s want to die but because the unconscious doesn’t know what death is it wants to have no control because that’s the closest thing to death it can think of. The death drive is the reason people stay in bed scrolling on their phone for hours or why people stay in abusive relationships because in doing those things people give up control of their life. This relinquishing of control offers a semblance of relief from the burden of existence, providing a temporary escape from the complexities of life. However, it also perpetuates a cycle of stagnation and suffering, ultimately hindering personal growth and fulfillment. This revelation ultimately serves as a catalyst for self-awareness and growth.

Monday Motivation - The Paradox of wanting not to exist

Read this immense motivator on Grapevine 
This has been my go-to get up everyday and be 1% better everyday

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