What drives you?

What drives you?

It’s funny how we live from day to day making so much long term plans but never really looking at what we have to do right now to maintain the pace to get to those goals. We want to be successful but not willing to make sacrifices to be the best and maintain that title.

No worthwhile cause has ever had an easy path otherwise the word “martyr” would not exist at all. There are a myriad of those in our illustrious history of mankind Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther, King Jr. and our very own Nelson Mandela. The common factor between these great figures is not that they had to suffer endless ridicule, torment, threats and saboteurs in their own trusted circles at times. It is in fact the nagging thought that they can just give up and things will be much better for them.

Within all of us we have this same battle that rages on, one part wants so much more than we have at that particular point in our life and is willing to walk the mile to get to it and the other will be content with whatever little it gets each time. It is only our own determination and grit that gives us that little extra to turn ordinary to extraordinary instantly. The same ability that gives a mother superhuman strength to save her child from an impending painful situation or the guts an athlete displays to go that little bit faster and push that much harder to obtain that which was said to be impossible before.

We all have these same traits yet some of us are not willing to tap in to this desire for success too afraid to want more and do more, thinking that society doesn’t appreciate people with desire.

Society has long adorned those with this level of desire with praises and admiration knowing that the few ones that strive for more and gain more are willing to do whatever it takes to follow their dreams.  One phrase that opitimizes what I am talking about was said by Sir Richard Branson:“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
Once you have fallen you gain new perspective and the path downward you will see where you need to go to get back on top or move further than you have ever been before. Adversity will be your hurdle that you can sail over and find out what your spirit is truly made of in order to gain that which you want the most.

Start today and dare to dream and dream in order to dare more. Once you stop dreaming you have stopped living and living is something that needs to be done daily. Consider yourself a champion as you have survived long enough to enjoy a healthy mind and healthy body (in some cases).

Never settle because you cannot gain ground when standing still.