Desire is what keeps everyone moving forward with goals when times get tough. Anyone can advance and accomplish things when everything in life is going well but what happens when things don’t go well. What if my goals were to reach $1,000,000 in gross sales a certain year and I only reached $800,000. Does that mean I should quit or is this where my desire will keep me moving forward and maybe I need to readjust my goals and make them more realistic? Desire and determination to achieve whatever that goal is makes one continue to move forward to accomplish their goals.

It was always said that Thomas Edison failed at some 30,000 inventions before he invented the light bulb. He said at every failure that he was one step closer to making a great invention. What if he had quit because he didn’t have the desire? We may have still been in the dark today. Have you ever known an athlete and the determined desire they had to be successful no matter what they faced? We had a young man in my hometown that was an incredible baseball player and as a young boy constantly played the game of baseball. As his friends were out partying and having fun, he was hitting baseballs. In High School he set the national record for most home runs in a high year. He continued with the desire to be a pro athlete and was drafted in the 17th round out of high school. Many people told him to take the chance and go pro. He knew if he could develop his skills better in college he would be more valuable. After 3 years at the University of Southern California he signed a major league deal for around $2,000,000 as one the top three draftees that year. His desire and determination kept him going in spite of others opinions.
Do you have that kind of desire that you will accomplish your goal no matter what? It doesn’t matter if it gets hard. It doesn’t matter if other people, maybe people you respect, tell you are crazy for going for that goal. It doesn’t matter if you fail many times at what you are doing. Desire is what determines whether one has leadership qualities or not. The nice thing is you can develop desire if you have passion for something so anyone can do this. With desire and some attributes you can be a leader. I was able to become a leader because of my desire to succeed. I was not going to stop no matter what happened and no matter what other people said. I have had many veterinarians tell me I am crazy for running my business as I do. I will compare my numbers to any of them. They are comfortable and I never want to be comfortable until I retire. Next time I will discuss how love and humility are attributes that every leader has to have if they want people to follow them.