You never know what motivates you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.