It's Why We Need To Be Driven

It's one thing to be motivated by our goals, but it's an entirely different level of determination when we are driven by them. At the start of journeying towards our goals, many people believe that motivation is the trait that will help us to succeed. After all, if we have both enthusiasm and reason, it should be enough to get us off the couch, and inspire us to take action, right? Absolutely! I cannot deny that motivation is an imperative characteristic that we need to possess if we are striving to achieve our goals, because we need to continually be positive, energized, and proactive, along the journey, but the problem with motivation is that it is a characteristic that can easily be influenced. Motivation is a wavering characteristic, which can come and go, dependant on the circumstances, situations, events, and emotions, that we are experiencing at each moment of time. One moment we may feel on top of the world, inspired and hungry for success, but then we may encounter a setback, or a failure, or maybe several setbacks and failures, which then start to install doubt and fear within our mind. We start questioning if all our time, energy, money, and hard work, are all worth it and equating to what we are working towards. That fear and doubt then starts to play with our motivational levels. Perhaps something unexpected happens in our life, such as the death of a loved one, a marital split, or similar painful experiences. Our mind becomes overwhelmed with what's going on in that aspect of life, which affects our mood and emotions, leaving us to feel negative and upset, to the point we lose our motivation and focus on achieving our goals. When motivation falters, it can easily become a time where we throw the towel in and give up, hence why we can't rely on motivation to achieve success.

Drive is the characteristic we need to possess if we genuinely desire to achieve our goals. The difference drive has in comparison to motivation, is that it permanently keeps us focused and inspired. If the goal we desire to achieve is significant enough to us, and basically means everything to us, then we become driven by it. The significance of the goal depends on how emotionally attached we are to it internally. If it means so much to us, then we would do whatever it takes to achieve it. That's what drive is all about. It's during those times of failure, setbacks, rejection, criticism, adversity, and even when outlying circumstances from our goal occur, that our motivation may falter, but our drive reminds us of the reason why we started the journey towards achieving our goal in the first place, and how much it really means to us to achieve it. Drive is what generates resilience, patience, and perseverance. Drive installs us with a "never give up" attitude. The power, importance, and significance, of that goal, provides us with the fuel to keep us going, and they are what constitutes drive. I say it often in my blog entries that the journey to success is brutal, as it's inevitable that we will encounter many failures, rejections, setbacks, and adversity, along the way, in the overwhelming majority of cases anyway. There will be so many times throughout that journey that we will be tested, and we will be dragged down to the greatest of depths, so we will face moments where we will feel like giving up and taking the easy way out. It's why we need that inspiration and purpose to just keep going. It's why we need to be driven, not just motivated!

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