“What motivates you to face your day? What challenges you to focus on your success? What prompts you to consider your next step? How do you challenge your mind to move forward? Adrenalin flowing? Feet to the fire? Shoulder to the wheel?
What keeps your heart engaged?
Good questions, I’m sure, but to a person who is already motivated, well, most everybody else is left in their dust. They have already moved on to their next moment of time and those left behind are scratching their heads, “Where did they go?”
It must be difficult for motivated people to connect with everybody else. Their focus keeps them moving while so many others are standing around, shrugging their shoulders, and wondering what to do next!
How do you have a deep and strengthening conversation with someone when they are standing still and you are moving at the speed of Mighty Mouse?
Can you ever catch up on your motivational lack and get back in the game? It's possible, sure, but are you willing to put on your overall's, work gloves, and get to work? Click To TweetAnything is possible, probably. If you attempt to try again, and again, and again. Think about Wile E Coyote…
Every time he tried to stop the Road Runner
He was doomed to fail, and often in the most dramatic fashion!
But he kept trying.
I think a clue to the personality of motivated individuals can be found in Mr. Coyote. Too many are often satisfied that, “At least I tried” attitude and fail to keep trying after failing one too many times.
A question put to a pilot while analyzing how a disaster was averted…
Question: Why did you keep trying to correct the problem?
Answer: That’s the only way you survive. Never Quit!
If we are tempted to give up, then our perspective of viable options disappear and we slide into the primordial ooze of just getting by, day by day, year by year. Too many failures. Too many times of not getting back up again. Too many times being knocked over by consistently heavier loads, and eventually succumbing to the weight of a feather.
Solomon tells us that a righteous (lawful, innocent, holy) man may fall seven times, but his personality is to keep getting back up again. (Proverbs 24:16) Regardless of the stumble that may have sprawled us across the yard, the pursuit of just rewards should prompt us back to our knees, and then with a groan, stand back up again, make sure all the parts are working, and then get ready to re-enter the task of progressing forward.
Here’s my thought. There is nothing wrong with realizing you are chasing the wrong dream. Don Quixote fought windmills thinking they were giants. It’s what you do with the realization that is important. Shake yourself from that wrong direction, pick a better target, and Charge!
Every successful person knows this. You cannot be defeated by failures or the recurring knockdowns unless you have a quitters attitude.
“Quitters never win, and winners never quit.” ~Vince Lombardi
You have to get back up and get back in the race… I learned this from Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life” back in the mid-’60s, around 11 or 12 years of age.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate
A poet, a pawn and a king
I’ve been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race
That’s Life!
Here’s another thought to consider. You may have to reinvent yourself for the challenge. I’ve changed my flow of life several times to adapt to the changing and challenging landscape of career and desire. I’m always ready to learn something new and prepare my path accordingly.
Remember, your future is based on what you do today… Not tomorrow.