Whats your motivator?

I've had this habit for a long time now - I look forward to something exciting coming up. That keeps me going. Currently, its the road trip coming up next weekend (Yup! I am taking a full week off). This is going to be similar to the earlier one in December.

Over the years, there have been other examples to keep ourselves going (even when there aren't any exciting events in the short term); like we had this strange backtracking sorta algorithm. When we went to Mysore to study, it was the first time away from home for the two house-mates and I. We used to have this countdown that started with "48 months to go". And in no time, we had completed nearly 4 years in Mysore (well, the course took exactly 46 months).

This was even more effective during exams: time till start of semester holidays = the time from when we wrote xyz paper till now.

Try it... it works for me, it'll probably work for you.