What Is An Engine?

[jmfargo]

What drives you?

What makes you realize suddenly that something in your life needs to happen, and so you do it?

Is it friends? Is it family? Or maybe it's just that you're an extremely productive person, always on top of the game?

For me, it's realization. I almost always have to go through some kind of mental hurdle, and realize "Yes, I need to change this behavior." It's just, sort of, a mental pep-talk that helps me look at my life and alter my behavior in such a way as to lead to a better life.

So, what do you do, when you realize something has to change to make your life better? Do you hem and haw? Or do you get right on it? How do you find the courage, the strength, and the drive to get to where you need to be?

Comments

[pleepleus.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Things happen and something inside me just snaps. It's the end of the rope. For whatever reason, things I have tolerated and excuses I have put up with or made for myself are no longer acceptable.

I can't give a specific always the trigger. Just whenever it happens. It is DONE.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you're saying. I've had it happen before in a lot of different ways, and I can never look back and say "this is what did it."