Pain can be a better motivator than pleasure

I’ve been cruising the forums during the weekend and I came across 2 threads actually that discussed the subject of ‘why do you want to work from home and if you are working from home, what motivates you into doing what you’re doing and not returning to the 9to5 day job.

There are some very interesting reasons and motivational ideas, but as I was reading along, there was a common theme in around 80% of the people that either had the goal of working for themselves, or they were already doing it. And this common theme was pain, believe it or not.

I have at home on the wall next to my computer a little paper with a 10,000 Euros written on it in bold. This is what I started out with to be my motivator: working hard to have the pleasure of having enough money, and a precise goal: 10,000 Euros a month. Bold goal? Yes. Achievable? I’m pretty sure it is, but it does require work.

But it seems this doesn’t work for everybody. Like I said, most of the people in those internet marketing forums, who replied in the relevant threads, were expression various pains related to their job and the satisfaction of finally leaving the ‘rat race’ behind. There were expressed ideas such as: the knowledge that you can finally sleep in if you want, work in you pajamas, don’t need to answer to various idiotic managers (who have other higher managers on top that make everyone’s lives miserable), to not have to beg for your vacation, to be able to take it when you want it and as much as you want of it. To not have to account for being 2 minutes late from work because of the traffic that you had no control of. And to be home, to see your family, and children grow and be there for them, not only a 8-11 pm visitor in your own house, and finally to know that you make your own money rather than make others rich for an average salary.

I’d say that these are quite strong motivators, and they moved me deeply. Not everybody is formed to work for others, some people are just not make to work in a corporate environment. And those in internet marketing, who are already following their own dream, or those who are working hard to get there, are these kinds of people. And that is good so. Imagine if we were all the same how boring the world would be.

So if the pleasure, the thought that if you’re working hard, you might get to a $10,000 one day (or something similar) working for yourself just doesn’t do it, shift your thinking: imagine the pain you’re in now working for a boss, and then the pleasure of leaving that life behind. That should really do the trick and motivate you more than ever to never give up your dream!