Motivation Versus Determination

One of the first articles I wrote when I started working for Youngevity was about New Year’s Resolutions. 4 months later, I thought it would be the perfect time to check in on those resolutions!

So where are you with yours? Still making it to the gym? Consistently adding more members to your team? Whatever your resolution may have been, from building your business to getting healthy, if you’ve stuck with it this far then congrats! You’re one of the 45% of people who’ve made a resolution and actually stuck with it.

There are days when I wake up to a gloomy, rainy sky but still go for my run anyway; not because I had motivation. A hot summer day motivates me, not the rain. It sure isn’t because of any resolution I made. I go for the run because I’m determined to reach my marathon goal. I’ve had friends say I’m obsessed with running, and that’s fine by me because I know that I’m working towards something that most people will never achieve in their lives: 26.2 miles.

Obsessed is a word that weak people use to describe the dedicated. Anyone who is great at something has probably been called obsessed. Do you think Dr. Wallach achieved all he has without being obsessed with health innovation? Dr. Wallach didn’t need motivation because he was determined.

Keeping yourself motivated to reach your goals is all well and good, but when that motivation turns into dedication, well, that’s when special things start to happen. Determination allows you to see your goals in the rear view and achieve things you didn’t think were possible. Anything worth having takes work, it’s an old cliché but nevertheless, it’s true.

Motivation implies a daily struggle, and an end game. Dedication comes when you stop needing that push and work hard even when you feel like quitting. It’s an internal contract you make with yourself. The dedicated are never satisfied with where they are, constantly striving to become better. Youngevity gives you the tools to change your life, but are you dedicated enough to make it happen?

There are lots of people out there who are! Take the 18yr old freshman from FHSU in Kansas who is rapidly approaching the Vice Presidential rank. After struggles with his family and leaving all he had behind, he walked to a friend’s house and started over. He signed 12 people to his down line, earned a bonus check of nearly three grand, and qualified for the free car bonus all in his first month in the business. Did I mention all of this is being done from a dorm room while attending school?

While everyone else surrounding him in the dorm was probably heading out to a typical college party on the weekends, he was driving over 4 hours every weekend to help out his team. Sure, some other students at his university may call him “obsessed” with his Youngevity business, but I call him determined. Generation Y is here, and working harder and harder to achieve success.

So go out and wear your badge of obsession proudly because anyone who thinks obsession is a bad thing will probably never achieve what you, the determined you, will.

Mike Schulz
Contributing Writer
Youngevity Marketing Team