Who’s driving your care and where are they going?

“Being confident, driven and hopeful.”

That’s how the ATA’s leadership manual defines attitude.

Are you driven?

I stumbled upon this during our weekly Leadership class. I realized that being driven is a HUGE part of your attitude. It’s difficult to just put on a smile for no reason. It’s hard to show up and do a job you don’t want to do. It’s not easy getting up each day and disciplining your children. Life is hard! Especially if you don’t have any drive.

If you’re going to improve your attitude you’ve got to identify your drive. What’s driving you? What’s driving you to work each day? What’s driving you with your family life? What’s driving you with your hobbies?

I can guarantee that if you don’t have drive you won’t have a very positive attitude about what your doing.

Now, let me be clear. Drive doesn’t mean you have to love something. You don’t have to love your job to work hard and have a positive attitude because you could be driven by the goal of making money to enjoy time with your family. You could be driven by your goal to improve your life. Your drive could be anything, but if you don’t have any you’re just stuck in neutral

People should be able to tell through your actions and your attitude that you are a driven individual. So let me give you one final suggestion. Find something that drives you that’s outside of yourself. If you’re driven by something bigger then yourself, in the end you’ll be more fulfilled.

So, what drives you?