Drive is an Asset that Can’t Be Purchased

What creates the drive that some use to propel their fortunes?

When I say fortunes, it doesn’t always have to be money. Sometimes a fortune is achievement. Sometimes no one really notices but a few in a person’s circle. Not everyone can be famous or notorious. Yes criminals have drive too.

Some grape vines in Germany are grown in rock strewn hills that make the vine struggle through hard ground for nutrition. These vines struggle and produce some excellent quality grapes. Unlike their lucky brethren that are nurtured in Napa Valley, these grapes have to work harder.

What creates the spark that makes the human will unbendable in a drive for recognition? Sometimes the drive is for self realization. Sometimes it’s for external acknowledgement of worth. It is the drive like a seedling to push through the earth and bask in the rays of the sun.

Seth Godin today writes about the mystery of success and how we like a story that creates the success and the legend. We like it better when the going was tough and faced seemingly unbearable obstacles.

I am currently entranced by the story of the Judds and how the single struggling mother Diana who became Naomi created the beautiful flower of two voices harmonizing in love, joy and triumph. It is also the story of Christina who became Wynnona and discovered a joy and talent at 12 that required years of polishing by expert stone cutters to become the diamond we enjoy.

Gabrielle Reese was abandoned by her mother at an early age and grew tall too fast to become an object of ridicule by her school mates starting at the age of 7. Always a rebel and fighting for some normalcy, her drive pushed her past normalcy to stardome.

There is talent, opportunity, hard work, and the need that creates some of the finest talent in all fields of endeavor. There are outstanding athletes, politicians, lawyers, musicians, chefs, writers, social workers, police, and parents that have stories to tell.

God felt no need to make things easy. Very few species on earth enjoy an easy life. The earth itself is continuously tormented with ground shaking rock eroding forces. There is a Will available in the Universe that can be harnessed to create mind bending, mythical, and legendary achievement. It’s more than caffeine.

We should never cast aspersions to achievement that people were born rich, they have looks, they were lucky. There may be all that, but there are just as many with these attributes whose pedals never see the light of day.