For me...Getting a GF=motivation

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Right now, I am in college, I was at another college after I graduated from high school, but I flunked out of all my classes due to a lack of motivation. I waited and got a job, (but I quit because I worked for over a month and didnt even get paid $500), and then at the beginning of this summer, I went to a different college, taking only 2 summer classes per summer semester, but then I failed one of the classes. When my mother found out, she was more mad than I have ever seen her before. Seeing her so angry and upset, made me feel really hurt. That was the first time I had considered suicide. But I shook off that notion after 5 seconds. I want to better in this summer semester, but I am unable to do my speeches because of (again) lack of motivation. I dont want to feel suicidal again, but it seems even that isnt enough to get me off the video games and anime. And then I had a thought. If I had a girlfriend, she would be able to tell me when I could put down the controller and do some work, or go outside with me and excersise. I had always come up with ideas to lose weight, but since no one would do it with me, I stopped, or even didnt do it at all.

I hope I could meet a girl that lives nearby me that can help me with my motivation problem

Motivation must be self created.

I know how you feel... I've noticed that how motivated I am is usually directly proportional to my current chances at any given point of ever getting a girlfriend... if a woman expresses even the slightest hint of interest in me, my motivation in life goes through the roof for a while (takes about a week afterwards to return to its normal low level)...

Buddy, motivation is something completely internalized, because in the end, the person who makes the decisions is you and only you. No amount of external influence will cause you to do better in school until you decide that there is intrinsic value in it for yourself. I suppose that there are people who find extrinsic value in things like school, too, but again, in order to find that extrinsic value, you need to make the decision to find it and finding it inextricably involves busting your ass and actually trying. If after you've actually tried hard in school and found that you see no point to doing it whatsoever, then perhaps college is not for you. People push an undergraduate education way too hard in this country, imo. Perhaps it really isn't for you; this isn't the end of the world in any way as there are many lucrative and actually useful careers awaiting in the trades. I'll agree with Bill and say that you aren't really ready for a girlfriend yet because no girl without serious self-esteem issues is going to want a guy who lets anime and videogames get in the way of his life.

I used to be just like you in HS, and I nearly flunked out due to it. As soon as I graduated HS, my parents told me to enroll in community college, and since those courses actually cost money, I figured that I'd damn well better apply myself because it's coming straight out of the pockets of my parents and I. Through this actual exertion of real effort and focusing of my energies into something useful, I found that not only did I have a knack for academia, I also found specific areas of it fascinating. Here I am now graduating with a bachelor's from a decent university in 3 weeks and starting grad school in the spring.

On a more tangential note, think about how near death experiencers report that their whole life flashed before their eyes before they were clinically dead. How do you want this little simulation of your life to unfold when it comes time for you to die? Do you want to just meaninglessly consume media through anime and video games or do you want to achieve something greater?

In addition, it seems like you might have ADHD just based off of your writing, but who knows.

Can't friends or family members help you get motivated? It sounds more like a mothers job.. Shouldn't really be up to your GF to get you to do your work. I know motivating yourself is very hard, it's something everyone struggles with, aspie and NT alike.

The best thing to do would be try and pin point the cause for this lack of motovation. Do you consider yourself a depressive person?

Hale Bopp brings up an important point. Have you seen a doc for depression? Lack of interest in things (other than special interests--like video games and anime) can be caused by low level depression. It wouldn't hurt to have a blood test done, too. So many times what seems like a self-discipline issue can be traced biologically. That said, if you can get yourself outside to exercise, endorphins and blood flow to the brain can work wonders. Also, keep in mind that video games cause a huge release of dopamine, and you have a limited supply of that. Once there is a deficit of that, it makes coping with other things difficult until it is replenished.

Don't be too hard on yourself in the meantime. There are lots of people going through the same thing!

I don't know what it would take to get me motivated.