DRIVEN PEOPLE STAY ON TRACK

You know driven people the moment you meet them.

How? By asking what they do?

No, they’ll tell you before you ask.

Something like, “My name is David and I’m good.”

Convincing enough? How about:

“I’m glad to help you. Let’s get started.”

Are you in the crowd of driven people? How do you stand out?

One way is to show consistency.

One old shrink says, “We are what we do, not what we say we will do.”

With that in mind, a guitar player is driven to practice, a body builder is driven to lift weights, a doctor is driven to save people from their discomforting disease.

What would you call a person who rises every day to compose and publish original material for no pay?

This asks the question of money: Can you be driven by something other than money?

The Cost For Driven People

If you’re new here, I am someone who pops out of bed early to start writing.

What’s special about that? Anyone could it, and too many do.

The competition for attention is stiff out there.

I spend hours a day writing posts that draw two clicks. You know how I feel about that?

Do I wish for twenty? Two hundred? No, just three.

If two people read the entire posts they don’t leave worse for wear.

This isn’t a blog of doom, death, or destruction, which is unfortunate because people love reading about people and places worse off than they are.

I work on the incremental pieces of life, the small things.

Football is called a game of inches when it comes down to making a first down, or crossing the goal line.

BoomerPdx is a blog of small improvements.

The small improvements don’t get much attention in writing or in life.

How many times has the Nobel Prize in Literature been given to authors you’ve never heard of?

Here’s the list. Give it a click.

Do Driven Folks Know Their Destination

If people want to know more about the things that interest them, they go to school.

At one time I wanted to know more about the world between the Spanish American War and the First World War.

For that I read books.

My favorite was Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves.

In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. 

Loss of Innocence, coming of age, growing up, whatever you want to call it.

Depressing, inevitable, doomed, whatever you want to call it, you’ll go through it with everyone else.

The most driven people I don’t know spend hours reading boomerpdx.

There are a few out there and I’d like to know if reading this blog is helpful.

How can it be more helpful?

Just don’t say more click-bait, more disingenuousness, more conspiracy theories.

That’s all on a blog I don’t write, blogs specializing in thoughtlessness.

This one is thoughtful, so think about leaving a comment.