If you have motivation without drive, you might have the desire to do something, but not have what it takes to get it accomplished. One is thought—the other is action. Sometimes the motivation, or willingness to do something, comes as a personal desire, and other times, you may want to do it for the good of someone else.
Drive, which can also be viewed as action and commitment, is what is going to get you to that end goal. Drive is what will keep you going even when your motivation ebbs and flows.
If you have a commitment to a sports team, for example, your drive to support them and the see them win is high, even if your performance is low. Drive without motivation, however, can leave people feeling burnt out and unfulfilled. So, how can you find the balance and which is more important—motivation or drive?
Drive is the key factor in accomplishing whatever motivates you. Motivation is fleeting. Most of us get motivated to do things all the time, but do we actually do it? Lots of times—no.
Our brains give us a dopamine high and release serotonin when we watch or read speeches, videos, and motivating posts. Small business owners may become frustrated when running their businesses and attempting to achieve a predetermined level of success. Even though extrinsic motivational factors exist in the business environment, these factors without personal drive may not be enough to motivate the small business owner.
Small business owners and entrepreneurs might need to attend training seminars or business trade shows to re-energize their personal drive and motivation. These events usually provide owners and entrepreneurs with new ideas for running and growing their businesses to achieve more successful operations. Business owners and entrepreneurs also find opportunites to network with other like-minded individuals and share ideas regarding business operations at seminars.
Highly motivated entrepreneurs and small business owners can create an infectious business environment. They can use their personal drive to succeed to develop performance management reviews for employees and help motivate these individuals to achieve business success. Thus, business owners often use extrinsic motivational factors to enhance their employees' work ethic and offer them rewards for conducting themselves in accordance with standard operating procedures.
While motivation is the microburst of energy you get to take action, drive is a macro state of being, a characteristic, or a mindset that is harder to attain or squander. I would like to share an area in my life where I am driven and experience bouts of inconsistent motivation. It pertains to my relationship with weightlifting.
Each of these injuries reset my fitness progress loosing over 25lbs of muscle and months recovering each injury. When I am healthy I have a fiery drive to be fit and disciplined. In my previous bout of being healthy, I went almost a year where I spent six and sometimes 7 days a week in the gym and only took days off for my body to recover. I remember going to the gym with a fever on two different occasions that year.
I went when I was lethargic and exhausted which was a handful of days each month. I recall two particular nights where I was so busy I could only make it to the gym at midnight, and I still committed. For those of you who know about building muscle, you know that most of the work comes from proper diet and eating rather than the gym. So whatever determination I had for the gym, I had to double that in the kitchen and persistently fight all other cravings I had.
Although achieving good physical fitness is an endless pursuit, I am trying to affirm to myself intrinsic that I am a disciplined hard worker, and it also makes me feel really good. By being fit, I also want to prove the same to others extrinsic , and it gives me confidence to have large defined muscles.
Motivation determined how energized I would be for that particular workout, but drive is what gave me the unshakable discipline to attend every single planned day in the gym, regardless of the excuse I tried to give myself.
Motivation is volatile and short-lived. No matter how intense your motivation feels at one moment, there will be days where it is vacant. This is an area that I am highly driven, however, there are areas where I lack drive.
In grade-school for example, I had moments of motivation to study and to put effort into my assignments, but I lacked drive for the majority of my schooling years. Many can relate to lacking drive in one aspect of their life and it leads to a lot of procrastination, wasted time, and just not feeling good. In this case, we often result to staying in our comfort zone and avoiding the unpleasant feeling. When you are driven to accomplish something, that goal becomes more important than comfort.
Drive is difficult to explain but when you have it, it is extremely powerful. It feels like you are being compelled by a force and you need to work towards your goal to be at peace. It can be so powerful that if you are driven with no motivation whatsoever, it can lead to guilt or unfulfillment.
In my own experiences, drive becomes a lot easier to manage and reinforce when you establish a routine. Since drive is unavoidable when you have it, you can work with it by establishing big or small routines to work towards your goal.
This way self-conflict of interest and stress about not working hard enough or not effective enough is avoided.
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