Extraordinary Drive For Results

Dear lovely people,

I run my life like a business or a project. The people who know me closely will attest to this and so in order to move on with my quest for success, I frequently ask myself some questions. What makes a company great? After all, management trends come and go. Economic conditions fluctuate and market demands shift. Corporations re-structure and new owners take over. Maybe, you need to ask yourself these same questions to the point of getting obsessed with them. Henry Moore says “The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.” Get the point?

From these questions, I came to realize that the one constant, the one enduring truth, is that people define the character of a company. They always have and always will. Motivated, passionate people make the difference between mediocrity and extraordinary performance. In like manner, you alone have the singular responsibility to shape your character.

There are many areas of life in which people exhibit an extraordinary drive for results, they have all the words to describe their inner motivation and even weaknesses. Recently, I met a friend – John who is planning to marry a classmate he just met and so I asked him what was so special about the lady. It was the details and clarity of his explanation that got me speechless than the reason…

“You will not understand but trust me, she is everything, everything that I’m wanting…” John told me passionately. “I’ve just known this girl in my class this school year, it’s been six months and I have a huge crush or better still, it’s an infatuation or obsession but I don’t really know where I am at between crush, infatuation and love, it might go further than a crush who knows but I am certain that I have an extraordinary crush on her. She is a smart girl, very smart I must say; she is so mature, awesome and funny. And her personality is definitely the greatest thing of her.

When I see her, I see perfection; I don’t know, but people always consider the person they love as “perfect” so this is normal even though no one is perfect. I can’t even find her flaws, it’s too hard to find them! She is flawless! She is intellectual, clever. She knows about almost everything and is absolutely knowledgeable. When I have questions about such topics, the only person I come asking for helps is her, only her. Because I know she will give me very informative answers. She is always right.

I love her smile a lot. I love when she smiles to me, it just makes me feel better. Oh God! I just want to see her smile always! And her laugh too! Maybe others consider her as “normal beauty” or whatever I don’t care, but for me, she is gorgeous and adorable. Her adorableness has given me several heart attacks! I just want to hug her, but I can’t. I don’t know her well, plus, I’m too shy and introverted, I’m painfully shy and often uneasy sharing my feelings with friends. It’s sad, but true. She helped me during my hard time, during my depression when I was down at my worst mood, when I had no purpose to live and when I had suicidal thoughts. She has helped me a lot. She is the best student of the class, people keep surrounding her, because of her awesomeness, funniness and flawlessness. Yes, she is so great. She is too awesome to be loved, contrary to me…”

Here is John, a post graduate student in one blow, giving me all the details of his new found love. From his description, you can clearly see he’s a master in the art, he does not only know the person he’s talking about but equally knows exactly what is hindering him from moving forward with his plans. I find this extraordinary, if everybody who set out to achieve a major goal in live could approach that goal with such diligence, with such vividness and drive for results, Behold, failure will go to its untimely grave forever.

When you have seen as much of life as I have (forget about age here), you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love and if that engulfing energy of an obsessive love could be channeled as well in to your quest for success, failure would never have been defined in the dictionary.

 Albert Einstein says “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”