r/NoExcuses Jul 14 '18

Motivate me to go to the gym and socialize more

5 Upvotes

Don't look overweight but I can tell I'm extremely out of shape. I don't want to put on more pounds. I just got a membership today after an hour of procrastination. As for the socializing, I've been holing myself up at home when I'm not working. It's led me to becoming depressed and thinking no one wants to be around me. I'm hoping to find friends to work out with and am also going to start going to a bigger church with more people I can interact with. I just want to be life positive with friends and in healthy shape. I procrastinate or try to talk myself out of things so someone to kick me in the ass and get going would help immensely.


r/NoExcuses Mar 30 '18

Wasted Myself Over In the Critical Two Weeks of the Semester.

1 Upvotes

I really messed up the past two weeks. I was home, off shift, with two weeks I should have gotten all my projects done but no, instead watched anime and stupid shows. This is the same pattern of behaviour that caused me to mess up my undergrad programme and here I and doing the same to the postgrad I just managed to get into. I go back offshore to work on the rig again today for 2 weeks. I will have probably no time to study or to work on these projects and if that project becomes due in the next two weeks or less I will be completely screwed. I don't know why I do this to myself, I should be my own best friend. I feel like crawling into my bed, sleep and cry. I don't know what to do.


r/NoExcuses Feb 03 '18

I motivate myself to study, do it(study) for an hour or two and then I'm back to procrastinating for the rest of the day

10 Upvotes

r/NoExcuses Dec 11 '17

My girlfriend of 4 years left me, motivate me to be not extremely depressed

8 Upvotes

r/NoExcuses Sep 28 '17

What I learned about motivation from Will Smith

4 Upvotes

https://kulturehub.com/advice-will-smith-best-life/

This is the kick in the butt that I initially needed to get off my ass and start making things happen. Now the hype from the article is wearing off and I'm looking for that next push. All advice is welcome!


r/NoExcuses Jul 30 '17

Being on Mountain Top is better than being on first Step. But being on the first step is better than Remaining On The Ground.

13 Upvotes

Animation of this quote is here: https://youtu.be/HFJDo0d83A4


r/NoExcuses Jul 29 '17

Need a hearty kick in the buttockulis maximus, art related

3 Upvotes

I need to get my arse in motion, go out there, and draw stuff. Give me good reasons to leave my house with paper, clipboard and pencil. I want and need to draw stuff, but procrastination keeps being too strong.


r/NoExcuses Jul 29 '17

How MOTIVATIONAL VIDEOS keep FOOLING YOU!

5 Upvotes

This 2 minutes video will show you HOW Motivational videos play with your mind! Watch in my YOUTUBE CHANNEL named 'STRIVER'. Link: https://youtu.be/Tt3c-s8q0Ic


r/NoExcuses Jul 11 '17

Punishment Gluttony: Humble Pie-Eating Contest

4 Upvotes

Listen, you think you don't have any excuses? Hear this:

Me: 1. 23 yr old white guy 2. Still college undergraduate from going in and out 3. ADD and depression, on zoloft and adderall 4. Never dated, always put off as "I'll have time to worry about that later" 5. 260 lb, what muscle? 6. Mental block to punctuality that has cost jobs 7. too much snacking (see point 5) 8. too much fapping (see point 4) 9. too much surfing (probably major issue overall)


r/NoExcuses Jun 21 '17

Horrorland

1 Upvotes

r/NoExcuses Jun 16 '17

What are some smart ways a 21 year old can make a lot of money outside of work?

8 Upvotes

r/NoExcuses Jun 06 '17

NoExcuses to be on Facebook (May 2017)

4 Upvotes

Timeline on what happen on Facebook May 2017

Date Article
2017-05-29 Revealed: How Facebook chief, Sheryl Sandberg, lobbied Taoiseach Enda Kenny over data protection role and taxation
2017-05-26 Yale/UC study finds extensive Facebook usage decreases health & happiness
2017-05-25 Facebook is trying to salvage Instant Articles by adding support for Google AMP
2017-05-24 Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections
2017-05-21 A major leak of Facebook’s internal guidelines shows how the social network deals with hate speech, graphic violence and sexual imagery
2017-05-19 Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé
2017-05-19 Instagram ranked worst for young people’s mental health by Royal Society for Public Health
2017-05-18 Facebook is fined €110 million ($122 million or £94 million) for misleading EU over WhatsApp takeover
2017-05-16 Facebook fined 150,000 euros by French data watchdog
2017-05-11 Abortion pill group's Facebook page deleted over promoting 'drug use'
2017-05-08 Facebook is blocking Thai users from seeing video of their king in a crop top
2017-05-07 Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp
2017-05-08 Austrian court rules Facebook must delete 'hate postings'
2017-05-04 Facebook nears ad-only business model as game revenue falls
2017-05-01 ‘Facebook Rewards’ QR codes dangle discounts for offline purchases
2017-05-01 Leaked document reveals Facebook conducted research to target emotionally vulnerable and insecure youth

See chronological compilation from 2007-2016 here. One of the most popular posts on reddit: r/bestof with 12.9k points and r/StallmanWasRight with 4132 points

Great articles

Media

Check the collection of videos about the problems of Facebook

Watch also the recent documentary by ABC Four Corners Facebook: Cracking the code (r/documentaries thread) and Facebookistan, available on Vimeo here (password: facebookistan )

Read the Guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook.


r/NoExcuses May 30 '17

Motivation buddies

2 Upvotes

Dear reddit humans,

I am a female in my late mid 20s and gained over 30kg over the past 2 years duo to personal struggles.

Prior I was used to eating healthy and work out regularly (every second day, in particular workouts to build muscles).

If you are struggling with loosing weight or simply want to live a more healthy life, getting more sporty and do not know where to start and need a guide, a motivational partner or just someone to talk about it to keep track of your own progress or to share your experience, you might want to contact me.

The idea was, that we could form a whatsapp group (or something similar, other ideas?), with a few people who might want to go in that direction, to feel more motivated and to help each other.

I do not care how old you are or if you are male or female. If you can handle dark humor, cursing, criticism, love and crazy and want to change your life for the better (even if it is baby steps), write me a pm and we will see from there, what works best for us.


r/NoExcuses Apr 27 '17

One Problem I can't seem to solve. Some kick my ass and enlighten me.

2 Upvotes

I failed miserably when looking for business capital. So I thought how would I start business with very small capital or zero start Up idea. I came across an idea which require very little to zero investment. Let me share my idea: I choose website Re-design as my niche and till now I did manual search on thousand of business sites and came accross 700+ website and list is growing everyday with email, phone number, fax and website address that need serious re-design that will help them increase their profit. I chose website that are spending huge amount of money on Google and FB ads. These website mistake is making them lose 60% of profit. I did my own research.

Problems I encountered: 1. I have $2000 in debt. In Indian money it's around Rs 130k. So all my credit card is block(No Money). Until I pay my credit card debt, bank in India will never offer me any kind of credit card. RBI make the rules and their rules are very extreme when it comes to doing transaction outside India. 2. My Biggest Problem: I have to talk to my client on phone and I have language problem. 3. I need a website to established credibility. 4. I need few software to do effective marketing especially email marketing.

Here is how I came out with solution: 1. I don't need a website. I just email them and tell them flaws in their website that is draining all their profit. 2. Arrange 15 min of talk with them. 3. Hire someone else to talk for me. 4. Use SendPulse for email marketing as it is free for 2500 subscriber. Wahoo But here is one problem I can't seem to have any solution. If money goes into my bank account, the bank will cut it all off but I have to pay people I have outsource for closing deals and dev work.I needed someone to receive and pay my outsource bill and sent the profit to me and he earn money just to handle simple transaction. How do I find reliable guy? As few clients will help me cover my debt but I have to pay for outsource as soon as work is done. How do I find one?


r/NoExcuses Mar 12 '17

I find it hard to find motivation to do school work

4 Upvotes

I'm on my third year of college on a four year degree program. I'm so close to graduating but now I'm too lazy to do anything. Before my goal was to graduate, but now even then graduating doesn't seem to be important anymore.

Right now it feels like to me that there's no point in even graduating anymore, and it's just a waste of time. To put into context soon I will be undergoing a summer internship on a company (the internship is a requirement for graduation). The thing is, once you've interned at a company you're pretty much ready to work full time. I've heard of people who have stopped finishing college either completely or temporarily because they found work much more exciting and rewarding than going to school.

It feels like I'm no longer learning anything useful at school anymore. According to some graduates before me, most of the stuff you need to know to work in the industry are the basics that were taught during the first or second year of the degree program. The rest of the skills you'd need will be learned through experience by actually doing work.

With all of this considered, it feels like finishing college is a waste of time. I imagine that the one year I'd spend on my fourth year would be wasted, why spend one more year just to finish a degree when I can start working earlier and thus start gaining more work experience earlier?

A lot of the school work is too repetitive. Most of the things I learn are things that I'm not interested on or I think I wouldn't need once I get working. I also feel that some of the requirements are just mechanical, that you just have to put effort on to finish it, but I'm not learning anything from it.

For example, in one of our classes our main output is to make a website. I've had experience making websites before so to me the task is trivial. I could probably finish it in just a 2 day hackathon. However, because it's too easy I don't feel like I'm learning anything. I already know what to do, so to me the task only requires me to type a lot of letters and symbols continuously for a long time. It's all mechanical and no actual thinking required, thus it makes it hard for me to start it. The only thing that motivates me to actually finish something is the deadline, which because of how easy it is for me, I usually just start doing hours before the deadline. This process pretty much just keeps repeating until the next deadline and so on, I no longer see any reason why I should be doing this.

This example also applies to other school requirements in general, I no longer see any purpose of why I'm even doing schoolwork. I'm not particularly struggling to learn the lessons, I have really low standards set for my grades (just pass the course) so it's pretty easy to achieve them. I could end up just fine if I just study a bit and do all of the school requirements, but because of lack of motivation I'm struggling to even start doing simple things, even homework that would require less than 10 minutes to complete.

I'm a college student who's almost gonna graduate, but I've lost my motivation to even do the simple things. How do I fix myself?


r/NoExcuses Jan 13 '17

Please Yell At My Father

4 Upvotes

He's always been super smart. BS in Applied physics. Managed to get out of Romania and finally move to the US.

He currently works as a technician. But he does not want to move forward. He has the opportunity to become an undergrad and earn the same salary he currently makes. He just says that "my mind cannot compete with that of a younger one" He wont know what to do if he does not even try!

His life is stuck in an endless loop of failure. I dont want my mom to have to get another job to support us. How do I yell at him?


r/NoExcuses Oct 06 '16

I don't know what to do anymore

3 Upvotes

Sorry for my English You know that moment in life when you just ask yourself: What am I doing with my life. Right now I'm in that moment and all the thoughts that are going trough my head are ether suicidal or really mean thoughts about myself like what I've done with my life, what I haven't done that I should. I'm almost 20 years old and I never got laid, never had my first kiss, never got in a relationship with some one, I'm fat and ugly and even when my friends are making joke about me being with someone as a complete joke their reaction always complete disgust because of my physical appearance. Some of you might say: go and work out, be more confident in yourself but it's really not that easy to do it. I've try so many things so many time in different ways but always with the same results. I'm just so pissed at society, genetics and the most of all myself because of all the choices and things that I have done to me and to other people that are or was around me. I'm just so sad and lonely that I just don't give a shit anymore about me dying or not because I know that either that I die tomorrow or in 70 years I'll know that my life was just a complete waste and I'm just some ugly guy doing some useless shit. I just feel like an outcast in my own body and mind. Even if I'm doing what I wanted to do in life: learning and participating in the making of game/movie I just feel like an empty shell that no one wants and at this point I just thing that I just have to jump of a bridge to end all this I'm just to lazy to do it like I am for everything else in my life. I've had reality check by some people but in the end I'm just to lazy to do or I feel like I don't deserve it because of who I am and what I have not done with my life. I like three girls in my life and in the three cases I was to much of a pussy to say anything to them and it's just eating me from the inside and it making me go crazy because if feel that I can't accomplish any fucking thing with my life. And one thing that is a curse to me is one of the big trait that I have it's that I am a Jack of all trade. I can learn a shit load a thing really quickly but I can never focus on a few thing to get better at them and that personality is not just affecting the things that I can do it's also affecting the things that I love. I love a load of things and I want to do a shit load of things but I'm not able to finish any of them and that is pissing me off. So please if you can help me do, because I don't know what to do anymore with me and if you don't please help find someone that can because I am at my breaking point.


r/NoExcuses Sep 26 '16

The Right Questions!! And Great Mantras!

5 Upvotes

So, when it comes to getting shit done, there's one thing that really helped me. The right questions (and mantras). And I want to share some of them with you :)

'What life won't I live when my fears hold me back?' 'How much time do I actually spend working on my dreams?' 'What would I do when I would love myself?' 'Where do I want to be in 10 years, in 5y, 2y, 1y, 1 month, tomorrow and what do i have to do RIGHT NOW for getting there?!' 'Am I giving right now 110% or am I just doing stupid shit?' 'Am I doing what I said I want to do?' 'If I keep doing this (what im doing atm) where am I going to be in one month?' 'Where do I want to go, if I had a completely free choice?' 'What is the one thing that keeps me energized and alive?'

'CREATE OR DESTROY, CREATE OR DESTROY, CREATE OR DESTROY..5..4..3..2..1.. CREAATEE!' 'FUCK YOUR LIMITS!' 'JUSTTT ONE MORE!' 'Successful people do what they need to do, whether they feel like it or not!' 'You should get to the point where everyone else would quit and you're not gonna stop there!' 'If I wanted to, then I could be upset now.' 'Ideas are shit!......until you execute them.' 'It's time to dominate!' 'Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced everyday.'

Also, stay calm, keep cool, stay in the zone and keep having a straight focus.

I think I'm also going to post some good mind systems on how to get disciplined really easy. Thanks for reading. :)


r/NoExcuses Sep 21 '16

Motivate me to make a move on this human I like. I've had many chances and blew them all so far

5 Upvotes

r/NoExcuses Sep 08 '16

How to Not Care What Other People Think (3 Simple Steps)

3 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaOzsRZ8-uE In this video I share with you the simple way to stop caring what people think, and the three steps to claiming all of the approval you want.


r/NoExcuses Sep 04 '16

Do it now.

5 Upvotes

Procrastination is the thief of all time, just ensure u busy, only d diligent make continuous impact


r/NoExcuses Jul 14 '16

How to win now?

3 Upvotes

Hi guys,

I am a normal joe, was pretty good at academics in school which landed me in a good college. Was athletic enough to excel in college sports, but din read a damn book through college and got fucked academically. But still life was good.

Since I have graduated, I am getting increasingly frustrated each day, just because I am not getting the positive results that I used to get. I study hard but I have so many smart people around me that they seem unreachable. Fuck them and their patronizing lifestyle, I don't want to be like them but I want to excel in my field(without sucking my own cock). I also feel behind in the physical conditioning of professional players in my sport, but I sooo want to achieve that level. Right now I am fucking injured too which is fucking me up bad.

I dont know what to do man, how hard things would be and for how long. Somebody please open my eyes to reality about life and how to win? Also, I am staying outside my country, no friends, no ladyfriends. FML :(


r/NoExcuses Jun 19 '16

One Thing that MIGHT Hold You Back from Overcoming Excuses

3 Upvotes

If you want to learn how to not give a fuck you need to figure out who is your worst enemy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J25C1B-IGhc


r/NoExcuses Jun 08 '16

Huge Interview Tomorrow

5 Upvotes

Alright, so this subreddit already helped once with getting me to finish school, now I have the biggest interview of my life. I would be set for life with this company, both financially and job security. But man, these nerves...I'm so afraid I'm going to fuck it up.

A good pep talk would be great.


r/NoExcuses Jun 04 '16

I need to start taking my education seriously...

3 Upvotes

I'm able to grasp concepts at school easily and I have admirable test scores but I just don't do my homework and it has been killing my grades.