Go Further

What drives you to be better?

Most people settle for who they are, for the choices they made 10 or 20 years ago, that resulted in whatever reality they are living today.

What about you? What drives you?

The first thing that drove me forward was my mom. I was a precocious (read all over the place / bored / demanding) child, and my mother’s main goal was to make me independent.

This was rough. I was also the kind of kid who was needy. A pleaser. Someone who craved attention. What I got in return was a whole lot of ‘figure it out’ and ‘you can do it yourself’.

Without that kind of treatment, I would be satisfied with my lot in life, and wouldn’t see any reason to go further.

I wouldn’t have the drive to see how far I can go. To be dissatisfied with the status quo as I find it.

I wouldn’t have been able to be able to appreciate the love I have, and the love I give, and the people I have chosen to be in my life.

It may be hard to see right now for you, but at any stage in life, you don’t have to have people in your life you don’t want. Especially if they hold you back from your goals, and are not as driven as you are.

I’ve made those hard choices of walking away from toxic relationships that were there simply because I went to the same high school. Simply there because of proximity.

I’ve made the tough choices to walk away from friends who treated others poorly, who had different core values from me, and who didn’t add to my life experience.

I’ve lost friends along the way who were addicts, who lost the battle with their addictions, and I miss dearly.

The flip side of all that loss and tough choices is who I get to spend time with today. I’m surrounded by amazing people who drive me forward to become the best person I can be.

I’m grateful and humbled by the people who I am so lucky to have in my life today, including you.

What an amazing journey this is, and the more I learn that my mindset is everything, my attitude is everything, the way I look at things is everything and all of that is in my control, then the world is mine to shape how I’d like.

You can too!

You can go further than you ever dreamed possible, and even if it seems impossible right now, you should go for it, and make it everything you can imagine!