Volition

Will is the number one habit of valuable employees according to the book ’12 Habits of Valuable Employees’. Defined as the habits of desire it is followed by habits of character, performance and influence.

I will argue that will (volition) is the prerequisite for success for anybody and everybody. The man at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there. They had to work, graft study and learn. They had to be prepared to pay the price to get to where they want to be. If the desire is powerful enough no price is too high. Think of elite athletes who will continue their daily training regime every day when the rest of the world are enjoying our Christmas excesses.

One challenge is that we often kid ourselves into thinking that our motivation is money because we hear that so often but once we have some, the relative appeal of more money quickly diminishes. I don’t know anyone who is really successful that is mainly motivated by money.

Money, after all, is an external motivation and an internal motivation will always trump an external motivation. I went to school with someone who was the first person to ever walk to both the North and the South poles. He tried to explain what was driving him, I didn’t understand it, but it was powerful enough, for him. to fuel his ability to walk thousands of miles across the most dangerous terrain on earth in sub zero temperatures, twice. Money couldn’t do that.

What is your desire and is it powerful enough to compel you to what others won’t?

So the questions for today are:

• What do you want to achieve so badly that you will gladly pay the price to get?
• What impact do you want to have on the world?
• Why is that important to you?

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