If I were to ask ten people to tell me what motivates them, I’m sure I’d get twenty different responses. Motivation serves as the driving force to our actions. Motivation, whatever that may look like, tends to be the core reason to our goal. Our motivation becomes our bigger picture.
Life has a way of making us run this rat race to make us feel like we need to work more and do more in order to be happier. What’s ironic about this notion is that most of us are more so motivated on fear. Yes. Fear. Fear of the unknown, or maybe the known is a familiar place you want to avoid residing again. Fear of success. Fear of failure. Even when bad things happen to us in life, we make these solemn promises we will never end up like that, but the driving force behind that is fear. So I dare to ask: what’s your motivation? Is it fear or is it faith?
When I initially wanted to start this blog, I was overwhelmed by fear. I dreaded it all. I dreaded the potential failure. I dreaded the potential success. I wasn’t sure how well I’d be perceived, and yet, I hadn’t even started the darn thing. I did everything to talk myself out of the idea. The turning point came when I asked myself, “Why am I afraid? What if this turns out to be something that’s bigger than myself? What if it’s a success?” At that moment, I stopped the fear and began to have faith.
Fear and faith cannot reside in the same heart. Fear says that “I will do everything in my power to try to make this situation what I want it to be so I can be happy.” Faith says, “I will give it to my Creator and give back to others than myself.” We expend so much time, effort and energy trying to avoid being in a certain state to say we’re “happy” that we miss the bigger picture. You ultimately miss out on what life has in store for you when you focus less on fears and more on faith.
What’s your passion? What’s your drive? What’s holding you back? What’s your motivation?
