One of the big “take aways” I got from a mastermind I
attended in Austin last month was when we were told to write down
our “why.”
Why am I in business?
Why do I do this every day?
Why do I push myself?
I had a lot of answers to this.
One is, I don’t want to be destitute and impoverished (already
tasted a little bit of that, it was a bitter fruit indeed…).
Another is it amuses me (I find it fun). Yet another is, I want to
leave a legacy of having done something worthwhile when I join the
Choir Invisible.
But the MAIN why?
The One Motivation that rules them all?
Power.
As the late Gary Halbert pointed out in his “Boron Letters” book, there is no justice, only power (and he would know, considering he wrote that book from a Federal prison serving time for a crime he didn’t even commit).
Yes!
I want power, babycakes!
And, I want LOTS of it.
I don’t want anyone controlling me or my destiny.
I don’t want to have my freedom taken away on a whim by some bureaucrat who suddenly deems me a criminal for committing a thought crime or some other nonsense (and if you think we aren’t going in that direction then, well, keep being naive, little snowflake, Obama loves you), or because someone bears false witness against me.
And, I don’t want to be financially or physically vulnerable.
Not exactly the most noble of “whys”.
But, few of my whys are.
(I wrote the deranged and ultra violent “Zombie Cop” book just to impress a girl, for example, and the thought of a particularly grating person in my childhood is what pushes me to keep going farther and farther in business. Hey, I grab my motivation where I can get it, yo.)
Anyway, was a good mental exercise.
One more thing:
(Speaking of “Zombie Cop”)
If you’re in to twisted monster stories, give the free sample chapter at Amazon a whirl.
Who knows?
You may find you like the “taste”:
Ben Settle
