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Actually, as funny as it sounds, having enough sleep is a major part of motivation, and if you need to schedule it in to your day, then do so. Stimulants only take you so far, and without sleep to rejuvenate, they`ll eventually burn you out. And that`s what you`re saying, in that you love what you do, but....

Have a schedule for doing business, and stick to that schedule. Then live your life when you`re off the work schedule. Getting sleep is part of living your life. It sounds as if you`re just working all the time, and what`s the point of that? If you say you have too much to do, the hire an employee.

Wow, really great inputs guys.

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It`s not that sleeping helps us keep fit. It`s that it sort of reboots the machine, clears out fragmented memory (the brain kind, not the chip kind), and often provides us with inspired solutions to seemingly insoluable problems.

Support the US mattress economy!---sleep every so often! (Raised fist in solidarity for pillow manufacturers around the world.)

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Pain can be a strong motivator, as can fear and panic. :-) But they last only for as long as the problem. Boredom can be a strong apathy-inducing motivation problem, so it`s important to understand what makes something interesting.

I plug into my mentors everyday, their enthusiasm and personal devolepment drives me more and more.

One other thing I have done is basically begun a media fast, this is I do not watch TV,listen to the radio, so I can control the positive stuff that I wish to be hearing and watching, my cd player in my car has my mentors audio cd`s running continuously and I read self developement boofs before bed, currently reading(again) `Think & Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. That book alone is enough to keep any individual motivated.

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NoLimits, that`s an excellent suggestion! We don`t watch TV anymore, and it`s been great to go through the days without gloom and doom. Instead we read books, and if we want the news, get it online. The extra time goes into living life, building the business, writing, talking (aka "conversatin`") and trying out new food recipes.

Every so often I`ll be someplace where they`re showing the TV news, and it`s a reminder of just how fear-oriented today`s general media has become. I think Michael Crighton is right in his essay about the how everyone is running scared.

Many ideas over here, thanks.