These Wheels, to that pavement

No doubt we have all hit “speed bumps” in our lives. These bumps come in many forms ranging from physical manifestations to mental or even emotional hurtles that stop us in our tracks and cause us to take a pit stop on the race track that we are speeding down. No matter how grueling or grinding these situations can be on the cogs of our lives, we must always regain focus and determination to improve and move forward. The best way of achieving this, and turning a speed bump into a boost in speed is to create tangible entities of your motivation, and use physical reminders of what drives you.

Decision analysts will always choose the most basic form of all decision making options. What this means is that we must take all the clouded, uncertainties and eliminate all possible decisions to the most direct and simple paths. The car enthusiast world is no exception to such theories, especially since many of these hopes and dreams involve large portions of time and money. The idea is to eliminate all possible distractions and focus on three qualities. By consistently honing in on these qualities on a daily basis, you can quickly retain focus and get the tread of your tires back on the race-track.

How can a car enthusiast create tangible motivation? By focusing on three qualities: Determination, Integrity and Decision.

If that isn't a call for Determination, I don't know What is...

Determination is that brand new Porsche GT3 RS, or Ferrari you lust for. Determination is a new intercooler or suspension kit that will eliminate 2 seconds off your track time and earn you more respect and pride within your community. Determination is finding that physical entity that is within your grasp, but will take effort, time, sweat and blood. Nothing that is worthwhile is free, and that is the first realization about generating Determination. Again, the essential feature of this quality in getting back on track with motivation is to establish a solid, real, palpable feature of that motivation.

Integrity is the understanding and acceptance of absorbing all effects related to Motivation as it is channeled through Determination. A wise, commonly quoted idiom states, “with great power comes great responsibility”. In parallel fashion to this idiom comes the cause and effect relationship between Motivation and the sweat and tears that can come from the results we seek. Our Idiom thus becomes, “with great Motivation comes great Determination and Integrity”. Motivation’s requirement of integrity is to act as a reminder about the challenges ahead, and to accept them no matter how winding the road may get, no matter how much our breaks will heat up and our paint will tear, wining first place is all that matters.

Finally Decision is the last quality in the hierarchy of what must be encompassed in Motivation. That GT3 RS will never live in that 2 car garage of yours if you don’t decide to risk your time to strive for it. This decision must permeate and resonate in all aspects of your life. That end goal must never be devoured by the darkness or the temptation to off-road in the middle of the race, after all, this is a F1 competition, not an Autocross rally. Once Determination and Integrity are established, Decision becomes a day-by-day venture, to start small and work your way up to the prize. Lance Armstrong didn’t wake up the day of his first Tour De France and decide to win without preparing and deciding to practice, or apply determination and integrity to all his prior steps leading up to his victory.

Motivation is an interesting concept, one that is mental and theoretical in nature, but in order to be effective, it must be materialized and consumed (Think gasoline in the engine of our lives). Dreams and ambitions are not impossible or out of reach, if this were the case, they wouldn’t produce a couple hundred GT3’s each production cycle, would they?

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