How To Motivate Yourself To Make Money

This is something I struggle with often. Motivation is the fuel needed to launch those projects and ideas you have that need sweat equity before any profits come out on the other end. Usually the source for long term motivation is clear (i.e., infinite freedom, time with family, etc), but what about short term motivation. What is going to put the fire under your ass when all you want to do is sit on the couch and watch a night of T.V. pass you by (while you should be working on your business for example).

I believe I have a solution: DEBT

For someone who has strong, basic financial principals down (saving, no consumer debt, etc) debt can be an excellent motivating factor for making money.

If I can't pay my bills one month, and I have to carry over a balance on my credit card (after paying the minimum), or I'm carrying a balance on my checking plus account with my bank, these facts role around in my head all the time, 24 hours a day, I'm even dreaming about where I'm going to get the money to pay for these expenses. This acts as a fuel to think of new ways of coming into some money. Now that extra "motivation" pushes me into coming up with new ideas, working on previously abandoned projects and forces me to put down the remote control, and find new/old ways to make some cash.

As for how to get into debt, there IS a certain way to do this: Instead of paying off all your monthly expenses, let the non-urgent expenses wait, and deposit those extra funds into some sort of investment vehicle. I believe this strategy is also called "paying yourself first".

What strategies do you use to motivate yourself?

Negotiate With Patience

As I learn more and more about making money, I see several patterns which seem to emulate over and over. One of them is the importance of buying low and selling high (obviously). And in order to do this effectively, having patience on hand will always give you the edge needed to buy low, thus giving you the ability to sell higher.
An example of this could be buying a used car. If you have the luxury of time and the ability to use patience, a quality used vehicle can be purchased for significantly less then if you were in a rush and needed to buy immediately.
Another example could be the purchase of stock, and using a limit order instead of a market order. Using limit orders effectively allows you to negotiate the stock price instead of simply purchasing whatever is for sale at that moment, although a little patience may be needed.
So if you happen to be in the market for a car, or shares of XYZ, don't only exercise good judgement, but also take a moment to exercise patience.