What is your mission in life and what drives you?

Vulgar-Bastard · 2020-12-20T11:52:23+00:00

Definitely not all sunshine and rainbows over here.

My mission at the moment is to get my mind, my body, and my pockets right.

Starting a coding program in January in a high tech demand city, hitting the gym consistently, and staying sober.

Everyone’s are different, but my mission/priorities are as follows:

Health
Wealth
Relationships

You gotta lift, period. No if’s, and’s, or but’s. I didn’t get a vibe from your post that you’ve been lifting so get on that. The effects of diet and exercise on your mental well-being cannot be emphasized enough.

You gotta be stacking bread. Are you working right now? Are you studying in order to work in the future? How can you increase your income? You need to be financially stable and independent to truly live a RP lifestyle.

When your body’s good, your bank is good, now can focus on your relationships. Now you can focus on pussy. Now you can focus on a social group. Now you have value to offer.

It doesn’t matter what your day to day feels like, as long as the trend across months and years is in the upward, positive direction.

Your mission doesn’t have to be this grandiose, life-changing pursuit. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself man, if you do you won’t end up moving at all. Just make sure you’re at least taking baby steps in the right direction.

Hope this helped

Metalgear222 · 2020-12-20T13:14:47+00:00

It constantly changes and flows. There’s a great book called “peaks and valleys” a short and eloquent read on this very topic.

Just my personal opinion though, don’t take life too seriously. Existence is absolutely beyond strange in a capacity that no words in language could ever grasp.

So do what makes you happy, and do your best to enhance others around you instead of drain them. With those 2 principles you really can’t go wrong no matter what path or purpose in life.

GenerallyBelow0 · 2020-12-20T13:14:35+00:00

^{^What} they said lmaoo.

But in all seriousness, you just gotta have a concrete goal that you know with all your heart that that’s what you want to achieve. Once you have that it becomes easier to cut the bullshit and get on what you need to do. Of course a good degree of discipline is required to start and maintain on that path tho, so if you keep finding yourself bullshitting maybe try to address that.

Personally for me, my number one goal right now is to be 100% debt free. Owing people or companies money is pretty demoralizing when you look at the money you currently have in hindsight. I took care of the former, so now im workin my ass off so that I can take care of the rest. I know with my heart that once I do that and get out of the minus/hole, I’ll have more peace of mind regarding finances. From there the plan is to continue saving and investing my money not only for myself in the now, but me in the future whether its in a year or 10 years. But the goal should always to be better than you were yesterday.

Number two is to get into good physical shape and raise my smv. I look pretty decent and somewhat built without a shirt on but I dont look like what I want to see when I look in the mirror. I want a physique that commands respect when I walk into a room, and one that allows ME to choose my pickings from the marketplace of HBs w fat asses, you know? I just got back into the gym and this time for real, trying to bulk up and absorbing knowledge and advice from wherever I can to achieve that goal.

And finally my ultimate goal that drives me is to accumulate fuck you money and build/leave behind a legacy. Establish my own and my family name, do for others what has been done for me and more, and to simply leave a big fat positive footprint on this spinning rock that will inspire many others to be the best they can be.

Hopefully that’s enough for you to begin some introspection and figure out what you want out of this gift of live we’ve been given. All you gotta do is figure it out, thats the easy part, daydreaming and saying one day I wanna be or I will be this. The hard part is getting the fuck up and doing it and by the time others notice and say holy shit, you can say ive been doing that. Cheers mates.

Ensifror · 2020-12-20T15:14:45+00:00

Contribute in some way to the betterment of mental health, particularly male mental health.
Run my own business.
Make enough money to own 3 cars, worth more than 500k combined without sweating.
Make a badass son, and heck, why not a badass daughter as well.
Sleep with every kind of attractive woman (race, hair colour, eye colour, etc)
Look good doing it, ie. Stay fit and strong until I'm 80.

I don't put nearly enough effort towards my goals right now. Dealing with some serious mental health issues and my life sort of collapsed around them. Trying to get back on track asap though. Don't worry about it. Nobody is on point all the time. Even if they claim otherwise. Shit happens, big or small. What matters is how you react to that shit.

scottandcoke · 2020-12-20T11:50:02+00:00

Ok mate see you tomorrow.

BlackSeaGull99 · 2020-12-20T15:11:45+00:00

No mission in life , no drive to achieve stuff, just drifting aimlessly in life.

Space_skrilla · 2020-12-20T17:09:02+00:00

Rn it’s getting rich so I can look after my people

bottomLobster · 2020-12-20T14:32:43+00:00

I will be brief - be in the top 20% fitness wise (but more like endurance/lifts than looks) and at the top in my line of work. This allows me to do the activities I enjoy the most.. However, these are more like a direction for me than rules, and I'm certainly more about the journey than the goal.

Daei- · 2020-12-20T16:20:04+00:00

To do whatever I want and not live a life I deem boring. I fell into a boring career and lifestyle so I am trying to shake things up and create a new path for myself.

2020-12-20T13:30:02+00:00

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ShaggyBlanco1 · 2020-12-20T17:30:15+00:00

To bring those away from God closer to him. Being a good example for those around me. Being forgiving to those who slight me. Giving wisdom to those who ask and trust

KingGerbz · 2020-12-20T14:06:22+00:00

You seem to a degree- self aware, so be proud of yourself for that. I won’t tell you what my mission is because it is very specifically tailored for me. Im not sure how much help it would be for you to hear my personalized story. I couldn’t even tell you the exact moment I realized it was my mission.

But I will say: it’s about the journey, not the destination. My mission guides literally every aspect of my life. Until the day I die, I will forever be chasing my purpose. The achievement of my mission is almost irrelevant because of its horizon. It’s not the achievement of your purpose that matters, it’s who you become in the pursuit of that purpose.

Dr_Van_Nosstrand · 2020-12-20T14:46:23+00:00

To ease suffering for myself and others through relentless self improvement.

__TheDon__ · 2020-12-20T15:31:46+00:00

Financial freedom is the ultimate goal

inbredostrptw · 2020-12-20T21:35:58+00:00

I just try to enjoy life however I can. The ups and the downs, it’s all about experience to me. We got 80-100 years to experience life, make the most of it. I wanna look good and have money because that opens me up to higher quality experiences imo. I’m skeptical about money as a purpose because I wasn’t the one that decided money was so important. It turns out that it is, so I do see it as worth pursuing, but I try not to make my whole life about money

krunchtimer · 2020-12-20T16:33:53+00:00

I see a lot of posts mentioning Health and Wealth.

Health and Wealth are interelated in the sense that your career (which determines your finances) is often determined by your mental acuity... which in turn is related to your health.

Black_Jesup · 2020-12-20T16:40:48+00:00

I've already accomplished mine. Now I'm rudderless.

Cine_Jon · 2020-12-20T16:44:04+00:00

Change peoples lives.

badtwothebone · 2020-12-20T18:22:45+00:00

Making money and building a flow of income that will give me financial freedom, staying in good shape and looking good through weight training and martial arts, travelling and building memories. I also have a few micro missions.

MrIncreible10 · 2020-12-20T19:58:46+00:00

Inspiring other lost young souls to be better at money, relationships and status when they come from abandoned father backgrounds and low social economic status

onedamnman · 2020-12-20T20:41:36+00:00

I have just come to the end of a solo holiday and I have learnt a lot about myself, what I value and what I need to work on. My first priority is my mental health. It has been bad for a long time and is holding me back in many areas of my life. Second priority is to do more activities where I feel most like myself. These are things such as scuba diving, rock climbing, riding motorcycles. Adventurous activities with an element of risk and challenge. Third priority is to get in shape. Fourth priority is beating porn addiction.

onedamnman · 2020-12-20T20:41:43+00:00

I have just come to the end of a solo holiday and I have learnt a lot about myself, what I value and what I need to work on. My first priority is my mental health. It has been bad for a long time and is holding me back in many areas of my life. Second priority is to do more activities where I feel most like myself. These are things such as scuba diving, rock climbing, riding motorcycles. Adventurous activities with an element of risk and challenge. Third priority is to get in shape. Fourth priority is beating porn addiction.

Lateralanouncer · 2020-12-20T21:59:53+00:00

What drives me is the feeling I get after achieving a goal.

Thinkingard · 2020-12-21T01:36:54+00:00

I know a lot of this is just a repeat of what others are saying, but I'll add my two sense anyway because it suits me. Currently I am not totally self-reliant. I don't have financial freedom, I am not able to do all the things I want to do. So, my mission is pretty simple: become self-reliant.

I'm a slow learner, but I've learned through the years that only I can make myself happy. Not just that, but I can't rely on others to fix my problems for me, only I can do it (not to mention others usually have more than enough problems of their own they are dealing with). Typically other people bring you their problems or negativity. It's rare to meet someone who has their shit together, so when you do, keep that person in your contacts.

You can make your life good or you can make it bad depending on how much responsibility you are willing to take. Sure, some people are truly unfortunate, that is reality, but there is probably stuff you can be doing to take control of your life.

Snowboard18 · 2020-12-21T20:31:14+00:00

Currently working on my doctorate in psyc so I can be a clinical psychologist or some other type of occupation that deals with helping people through their mental illnesses

TigerXtrm · 2020-12-20T15:39:59+00:00

Gotta stay kinda vague because this could get dangerously specific otherwise (all legal, don't worry), but I have a life long dream. The kind that sits at the top of a bucket list, in bold, underlined, in capital golden letters and encircled in diamonds. That kind of life goal.

Until not too long ago it was the kind of goal that seemed insane and utterly unattainable. And then, through a series of coincidences and meeting the right people at the right time, suddenly that life long dream went from 'not in a million years' to 'give it everything you have, and you have a shot at it'.

Ever since then I've been devoting all of my time and resources to securing this dream. It's been my single focus, and it's pushed me through challenges that I would have otherwise avoided or failed at. It is, currently, the one and only thing I truly live for.

TRP has been a big inspiration in this journey. The reason this started in the first place was because I forced myself to step outside of my comfort zone when someone invited me to an event that I would have normally turned down. Instead I said yes, and down the rabbit hole I went.

russian-jewboi · 2020-12-20T15:49:21+00:00

Well, I just graduated college with no debt and a six figure job. So now my goal is to continue working on my two businesses so that I can retire before I turn 30 and pursue my real passion, which is music.

I’d also like to continue getting jacked lol.

Rondooooo · 2020-12-20T18:21:59+00:00

If you have no purpose, make money your purpose.

With money comes freedom. With freedom comes the time and ability to focus on yourself. With self improvement comes happiness, satisfaction, women etc.

It's sad when I think about it sometimes, that money is my purpose. But that's how the game is and I'm trying to play it the best way I could.

PickUpScientist · 2020-12-20T14:50:21+00:00

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FungusAmongus88 · 2020-12-20T18:09:44+00:00

I’m pretty sure I’m never getting married (by choice) and I don’t want any kids so I’m focusing my time while I’m younger to make as much money as I possibly can. Cut costs and living within my means while finding other sources of income. I do alright for myself financially with my day job and I’m 100% independent but I want “fuck you” money. Don’t we all. But that’s what drives me, “fuck you” status.

PrivateMightyMouse · 2020-12-20T19:39:48+00:00

My drive is to eventually open up a military school that focuses on discipline and preparing the youth by instilling that warrior mentality into them that’s been taken away by a feminized society.

That’s my vision after I retire. I’m hoping to start a side business on the side of my military career to diversify my income and make it a reality.

I feel like I’m too easily distracted by women and whenever that dries up I resort to other bad habits. I know what you mean cutting out distractions. I sold my gaming console only for other shit to replace it.

I know I’m going off track when I start overlooking the smaller things in life. Like keeping my room clean or derailing from my workout routine.

Another problem that I have faced is getting too comfortable shortly after a bout of success. What I mean by that is I’ll hit a milestone in my career and move up the pecking order, then I’ll get too comfortable and disregard my smaller tasks and the popularity sometimes gets to my head.

In the military, (or anywhere else for that matter) it’s important to continually practice your tasks or you will lose the skill and become rusty. You might understand the bigger picture but you must retain and refine the smaller skills.

Adapting is important but specializing is what brings you to a team.

I’m a fan of Jordan Peterson’s saying “Don’t compare yourself to others, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.” As long as you continually improve and you don’t get too comfortable, you’re on the right track. Eliminate the liabilities (for example; unsupportive women/friends can be considered a liability) so you have more time to invest in yourself.

Title	What is your mission in life and what drives you?
Author	Peace-101
Upvotes	78
Comments	59
Date	December 20, 2020 11:19 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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