Added Fuel

When journeying towards our goals, there are several factors that have the potential to distract us from focusing on achieving them, along the way. To first start the pursuit, we need that element of motivation within us, that enticement of actually achieving our goal, as we visualize the feelings and emotions that we would experience in that moment of success. Picturing such a moment fills us with great joy and excitement, which ultimately is what triggers the motivation within us to get started on the journey. Sadly, motivation is a very unreliable emotion. It can be easily distracted by external influences and circumstances. Ask anyone who has ever quit such a journey, and they will tell you that they lost all motivation to keep persevering with trying to achieve their goals, because they became sick and tired of continually failing over and over again, they became sick and tired of being rejected, they became sick and tired of waiting for success to manifest, and they became sick and tired of constantly facing challenges and setbacks. To these individuals, success was clearly never going to present itself when there were constant failures, rejections, setbacks, and challenges, hence the reason for giving up on their goals. That's what they believed anyway! Anyone who has ever succeeded will tell you that you simply just need to keep on persevering, no matter the time it takes, no matter the number of failures, no matter the number of setbacks, no matter the number of rejections, and no matter the number of challenges. The journey is about patience, determination, resilience, perseverance, belief, and hard work. We are all human though, and we all experience the disappointment, frustration, pain, suffering, and hurt that comes with failure, rejection, setbacks, and other adversities. We know the option to give up is so much easier to do, rather than continue on encountering the emotions of disappointment, and the like. It's the time where our motivation gets immensely tested. But if choose to quit, what do we achieve? All that pain, suffering, and hard work all amount to nothing, therefore, we need to refuel our motivation.

The likes of failure, rejection, challenges, setbacks, and so on, are all examples of influence that can so easily tear down our motivation. It's not easy to pick ourselves up each time, draw on that resilience within ourselves, and continue on the journey. Because motivation is so easily influenced, we need to strengthen and enhance the reason why we are on the journey towards our goal in the first place. Perhaps our goal isn't important enough to us, and simply doesn't have enough significance? When achieving our goal does mean everything to us, and we have this unbelievably strong emotional attachment to it, that's where our motivation levels are dramatically boosted, through the characteristic we better know as "drive". Drive doesn't waiver like motivation does, because we are so determined and desperate to achieve the goals we desire, that nothing will stop us in our tracks. Drive is steely focus, that despite any negative external influences and circumstances, it remains steadfast in perseverance and patience. Drive is the ultimate fuel required to provide us with endurance and stamina. Let's not devalue motivation here though, because motivation is what encourages willpower, belief, positivity, and action, after all. We can't complete the journey without drive, but we certainly need regular boosts of motivation along the way also. Motivation basically compliments drive. So how do we find that motivation, especially when we are finding ourselves constantly encountering failure, adversity, setbacks, rejection, and challenge? As much as executing the actions that are progressing us towards our goal are of huge importance, we should never shy away from engaging in personal development training either. We should be indulging in some mindset strengthening, to help us better deal with failure, and the like, along the way. This personal development and mindset training will help us understand failure better, assessing it to be nothing more than a learning curve, nothing more than a stepping stone, and nothing more than an opportunity to pivot and make changes. It will help us to remain goals focused, be more positive minded, have more belief in ourselves and our abilities, be more patient, and better handle those times of adversity.

So, we are driven by the goal itself, we engage in daily personal development and mindset training, but there is also something very common that we often encounter, along the journey towards achieving our goal, that we can use for added fuel for our motivation. We will regularly cop a lot of opposition from many people, including those such as our family, friends, partner, and other loved ones, who will constantly criticize us for the decisions we make, and actions we take. Why? Well, a lot of the decisions that are needed to made, and actions that are needed to be taken, when we are in the pursuit of our goals, are a little left field to what most people perceive as being "normal" in life. These decisions and actions are often risky, so most people will view them as being foolish to proceed with. Proceeding with them also ruffles a few feathers with people, because they are often not decisions these individuals want us to make. They can't see these decisions benefiting them in any way, nor are they decisions they believe are best for us. Perhaps these decisions inconvenience them in some manner, or they simply don't fit their agenda. At the end of the day though, we need to follow our heart, do what we believe is in our best interest, and do what is best in guiding us towards achieving our goal, irrespective of what others want, and irrespective of who these individuals are in our life. What sucks about this journey is that we are often made to look foolish, because of the regular failures, rejections, and setbacks we encounter. It's perfect ammunition for those who are criticizing and opposing us, because they have the belief that failure is finality, a clear sign that we are wasting our time and making poor decisions. So what do they do? They throw doubt at us! They become even more adamant that we are doing nothing but setting ourselves up for failure, that we are merely assigning ourselves to pain, loss, and disappointment. They doubt the success we seek is at all possible, they doubt our abilities, they doubt our decisions, they doubt our actions, and they doubt our potential. In fact, if they don't actually say the words "you won't succeed" to our faces, they are definitely thinking it! This criticism, opposition, and doubt that we encounter, as much as it can be viewed as being hurtful, discouraging, and demoralizing, it can actually become the perfect added fuel for motivation.

Without feeling cocky and excessively proud, how good is it to achieve something that other people stated we couldn't, or wouldn't, achieve? How good does it feel when we prove ourselves to be right? We feel chuffed, naturally! Imagine how good it would feel, when you're bathing in success, after people were telling you that you would never achieve such an accomplishment. It's satisfaction in itself to achieve one's goal, plus it's added satisfaction to reflect on all that we overcame on the journey to get there, but it's even further compounded in knowing that we proved people wrong with the ability, attitude, and potential we possess. We are made to look foolish by them along the journey on so many occasions, but through our determination, drive, patience, perseverance, resilience, and hard work, we prove that it is actually they who are the foolish ones. When people doubt you, when they doubt your abilities and potential, when they doubt the likelihood that you will achieve the success and goal you desire, use this as added fuel. Allow their doubts, criticism, and opposition to motivate you. Let's face it, someone is going to look foolish! Is it going to be you, for embarking on what others believe to be a fruitless mission, or is to going to be them, for you going on to prove that accomplishing your goal was always a given? Three words: prove them wrong! Let their doubts, criticism, and opposition push you to work harder, and fuel your determination. You have the potential, talent, and ability within you to achieve whatever you set your mind to achieve. No, it's not a pleasant journey, and you will undoubtedly encounter many failures, setbacks, rejections, and challenges, along the way, but never give up! It's the greatest journey to help you learn, grow, and develop as an individual, and that's priceless in itself! Follow through with the decisions that are coming from the heart, and fight for the happiness and success you yearn to achieve in life! Don't let the doubters deter you, but instead, use their words as added fuel to motivate you!

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