Success Concept - Desire

There are many elements one requires to achieve success. In a series of articles discussing success concepts, I have stated that I believe passion and vision are two key pieces to the puzzle. Desire is another essential element. Dictionary.com states that desire means to long for or crave. The fuel that fires your passion, desire is what keeps your eyes on the ultimate prize of success.

You need to have a strong will to achieve rather than just wanting something. Wanting is just a wish, and that is not enough to drive you. Watch a baby learn how to walk, and you will see what true desire looks like. How often do they wobble, stumble, and fall - over and over again - before they succeed? They will keep falling, pulling themselves back up, holding on, and eventually will walk without assistance. These toddlers experience that internal fire to achieve. They are driven with a desire to succeed!

Whatever success means to you, the desire to reach your ultimate goal must be within. There are many who state they want a high-level job in a large corporation, to own their own business, to be independent, to be wealthy, to be well known in their community, to complete a marathon, or many other visions of what being successful represents to them. Sitting on the couch watching television and thinking about it will not make it happen. You must have a deep, burning desire to achieve, which means you must act on it.

You must train, run regularly, and eat right to achieve the marathon dream. You might have to return to school to earn a college degree to be considered for that corporate position. Possibly determining a budget, sacrificing unnecessary purchases, and saving will be required of you to have wealth. To own your own business could require finding the right person to mentor and coach you. Each of these represents the need for a desire to begin acting on what you want.

Break it down into simplistic terms; think of going on a trip. You might want to go some place. However, wanting is just wanting. Instead, if you have the desire, you will make plans, map out your route, make reservations, and put gas in the car. Without the fuel, you're going nowhere. All the thinking and wanting and planning will be wasted time without the fuel to make it happen. The deep, burning desire to achieve success comes from the deep desire to crave it.

How strong is your desire for success?

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