Inner Drive

“The Drive that Pushes You On”

Decide what it is that you want to achieve. Write it out in full

detail. Tape Post-Its with the name of the goal all over your home and

workplace. Tell everyone what it is that you intend to accomplish. Be

proud of your goal. But most of all, concentrate each morning, noon,

and night on the achievement of the goal or task. Always focus on

the finish line. As you work through all the obstacles and pitfalls you

encounter, see the finish line, the completion, the award ceremony you

will have in your mind when you reach the finish line.

Any marathon runner or bike racer or Olympic athlete must focus

on the finish line. They must keep the cobwebs out, go through their

routine endless times. They visualize their technique and what to avoid

along the way. In other words, they psych themselves up or motivate

themselves. The true sign of a winner is that they expect to win. Many

winners never once think of failure or that they might not succeed.

Inventors are the most driven individuals because they must do the

seemingly impossible. They invent something or improve something in

a manner that hasn’t been done before. All along the way the inventor

experiences failed attempts. Sometimes those failed attempts number in

the thousands, but that doesn’t deter the inventor. He welcomes failure,

realizing that each new failure brings him closer to his breakthrough, the

successful completion of the invention.

Salespeople work the same way. Each “no” they receive brings them

that much closer to their “yes,” their sale. They are not discouraged by

someone’s refusal to buy because they know that they must maintain

that all-powerful positive attitude; otherwise, the sales will never come.

So, it is important to maintain that winning attitude no matter how

rough the road to the goal. It is important to use positive affirmations

to remind the mind, to psych up the mind, so no negative impulses will

jeopardize or get in the way of that finish line, that award ceremony you

will have at the time of your achievement.

Whether the goal or task is small or large, the concept and method

are the same. In fact, I recommend right this minute that you come

up with three very small tasks. Write them down, but do only one at a

time. Celebrate each small victory in your mind. Once you achieve the

third goal, it will be time to choose bigger, longer-term tasks, dreams,

goals. But you will be confident that the system works and that you are

capable of reaching each finish line.

Og Mandino, in his book The Greatest Salesman in the World, uses

positive affirmations such as this:

        “I will persist until I succeed. The prizes of life are at the end of each

journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many

steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter

at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road.

Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner. Always will I

take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another.

In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I will persist until I succeed.”

What we need to understand is this: The monumentally great

people of our lifetime, the tremendously successful achievers, have a

better way of implementing the intense, burning desire about bigger

dreams and goals than other people. That is the only difference. So, you

can do whatever it is that consumes you, obsesses you, day and night.

The saying comes to mind, “What the mind of man can conceive and

believe, it can achieve with a positive mental attitude.”

C-2012 J. Carinci from the book An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed