Watch your dri­ving force! Be­fore you watch it though you need to know what it is, so let me ask the nec­es­sary ques­tion... Do you know what's your dri­ving force? What's pro­pelling you to do the things that YOU do? Are you at the 'steer­ing wheel of your life' or are you just mash­ing 'the gas ped­al of im­pulse' or in oth­er words, just go­ing with flow? Ad­di­tion­al­ly, we must all ask our­selves if we are dri­ven by self­ish am­bi­tion. Many are not aware that we have 'a dri­ving force.' Pos­si­bly be­cause this 'dri­ving force' is some­thing that is rarely seen and if seen, it's hard­ly ever seen in to­tal­i­ty. It can be likened to the dri­ver of a ve­hi­cle not be­ing to­tal­ly in view. There's al­ways some part of the per­son be­ing hid­den and most times, as the ve­hi­cle is in mo­tion, un­less we are next to the dri­ver, we soon lose sight of what we see of the dri­ver, and even­tu­al­ly the dri­ver him­self/her­self. Please note al­so, that be­ing next to the dri­ver does not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean we can see the dri­ving force with­in the dri­ver.

The very speed of life it­self can make us less aware of what or who is 'be­hind' us or oth­ers. We could be head­ing nowhere fast, so as time pass­es quick­ly by, we need to be aware that our views of life are in­flu­enced by ex­ter­nal or in­ter­nal forces, which at times can even see us miss­ing the 'big' pic­ture. It's a fact of life: Ei­ther we are see­ing things through con­tin­ued dis­mal lens, or we are choos­ing to look through 'lens­es of hope'. There has to be 'some­thing' lead­ing us to our ul­ti­mate ac­tions or 'some­thing' dri­ving us. It can be faith­ful obe­di­ence to a spe­cif­ic God-giv­en call/goal or it could be that we are mov­ing just on our own whims and fan­cies. It is crit­i­cal that we be more aware that we are re­spond­ing to a dri­ving force vol­un­tar­i­ly or in­vol­un­tar­i­ly. It's not al­ways a mat­ter of 'hav­ing a feel­ing' or 'a strong urge to'. Yes, there's in­tu­itions which we can be aware of, but if we re­spond blind­ly to them, we could be forced to live with some con­se­quences we are not al­ways pre­pared for. In oth­er words, we could be dri­ving oth­ers crazy or lead­ing oth­ers to do what is in no one's best in­ter­est. Based on the reck­less/mind­less ac­tions of some, it is easy to see at times that 'some­thing' un­de­sir­able is in the dri­ver's seat. One such thing is pride which comes in very ear­ly and is usu­al­ly so hard to get rid of, be­cause once in, it is fed (fu­elled) with more and more pride.

Yes, what­ev­er we feed good or bad con­tin­u­al­ly grows. If we keep fu­elling or let­ting 'the fu­el' be what is neg­a­tive, then our wills are be­ing ex­er­cised for neg­a­tive out­comes. Why not try the re­verse? So many oth­ers in­clud­ing our­selves can ben­e­fit. Be mind­ful though, that as we seek to do good or do the right things, we must not use force. If we do, that is ma­nip­u­la­tion which is some­thing we must to­tal­ly stay away from. A bet­ter op­tion would be to lov­ing­ly guide or humbly ex­em­pli­fy what is de­sir­able. We can't force any­one to see our point of view or force them to be like us. We are all unique and are all trav­el­ling on our spe­cif­ic paths, or on paths specif­i­cal­ly de­signed for us. As we speed­i­ly move around, I refuse to be­lieve that any of us tru­ly wants to crash. We can and must sit com­fort­ably se­cure in our ve­hi­cles know­ing that there is a greater force than us. We ei­ther sub­mit to 'it' (the di­vine dri­ving force) or we sub­mit to reck­less pur­suits. We must watch 'it' and be aware of 'it' now be­cause we are con­stant­ly be­ing watched by it! If we let go of the steer­ing wheel and just mash the gas, we can't blame the ve­hi­cle for where we end up! If we don't pur­pose­ful­ly put 'pos­i­tive fu­el' in our ve­hi­cles, we could end up not ever get­ting even a glimpse of the won­der­ful life-chang­ing des­ti­na­tions that are pos­si­ble. Just hav­ing im­mense po­ten­tial means noth­ing. It must be ex­er­cised and ap­plied! It must be forcibly and pos­i­tive­ly dri­ven! Af­ter the in­spi­ra­tion there must be per­spi­ra­tion! Let us al­ways be will­ing to dis­cov­er new pos­si­bil­i­ties! Who knows, we could even dis­cov­er more in­ti­mate­ly 'our dri­ving force!' What's YOUR 'dri­ving force?'

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