The Truth About Motivation
Imagine this
scenario.
You are an
incredible athlete. You’ve been training in your sport
since you were thirteen years old and you’re on the fast
track to being at the top of your game. You’re winning
race after race and well on your way to being the
absolute best you can be. You’ve also signed a very
lucrative contract with a sponsor. You’re living your
dream, man. Life has never been better.
Now, imagine
your world coming crashing down all around you as you’re
diagnosed with such a deadly disease that your doctor
only gives you a 40% chance of recovery. That’s right -
forty percent!
And on top of
all that - you’re only 25 years old.
What do you
do?
Do you stop
competing forever? Do you succumb to the deadly disease
and decide to let it beat you? Or are you motivated to
continue on your path to stardom, beat all the odds and
enjoy the sweet smell of success that much more?
Well, if
you’re Lance Armstrong, you certainly pick the latter.
As most of
you know, Lance Armstrong has continued to beat the odds
year in and year out. He not only beat a very aggressive
case of testicular cancer that at one time had spread to
his lungs and brain, but also won the grueling Tour de
France seven consecutive times. Not once, not twice, but
seven consecutive times! It’s an amazing story about an
amazing man who has always had one thing going for him
throughout the good times and the bad. The one thing
Lance has that no one can ever take away from him is –
his Motivation.
Motivation,
after all, is that thing deep down inside every single
one of us that drives us forward to taking action on our
goals. The question is - how motivated are you? What
makes you buckle down and take the steps necessary to
achieve your dreams? If you know right now that you’re
not where you want to be in life, you need to figure out
what motivates you and use that to propel yourself to
success in all areas of your life.
In other
words, if you want the right things to happen to you –
YOU have to make them happen!
You may be
thinking, well that’s great and everything, but you
don’t know about my life.
I know that
your life is hard.
I know that
times are tough.
But, I also
know that you want more. And I know that you want to
succeed. I know that you want to provide for yourself
and your family. And I know that you have goals and
dreams that you haven’t realized yet.
Now, I want
you to think about Lance Armstrong’s story again. It’s a
true-life story that shows you clearly how strong a role
motivation can play in your life, if you’ll let it. It
shows you that even the best of the best don’t have it
easy all of the time. It shows you that hard work will
eventually pay off in the end. And, above all, it shows
you that if you can dream it
…. You CAN do it.
Susan Lynn Perry
