Reasons make the difference
“If you have enough reasons, you can do the most incredible things. ”
It’s easy to settle for existence rather than substance, but the best way to break out of this is learning how to set goals. You can have the intelligence, talent and ability yet not have enough reason.
You can get the answers, if you can get the reasons.
Life has a mysterious way of hanging onto all the answers and will only give them up to the people that are inspired by reasons. Here are 3 reasons for doing well:
1 Personal
Recognition
Respect
The way it makes you feel
While finding the joy, satisfaction and glee in what you do, you begin to develop those personal reasons and in turn desire the constant success. But you can either win or learn. Believe in the journey.
2 Value
Providing value to family and others
Some people do extremely well for other people, that we won’t do for ourselves. We’re made that way and it is powerful in the way we affect each other. How fortunate are people that find themselves greatly affected by somebody, for personal achievement?
The Scotsman, Andrew Carnegie, that built the steel industry had left a piece of paper on his desk when he passed away. It was his 1 goal:
I’m going to spend the first half of my life, accumulating money. I’m going to spend the last half of my life giving it all away.
Andrew Carnegie got so inspired by that goal that the first half of his life, he accumulated $453m and the second half, he gave it all away.
3 Turning factors
What drives you ‘on’ & what drives you ‘off’
What’s got you up early and staying up late and get it all day? Alternatively, what are the things that turn you off?
Whatever turns you off, find ways to cure that then build a list of the things that drive you on.
You may fall out the sky a few times but you will never lose that drive to keep you going and make something unique out of your life.