How Bad Do You Want It

A couple of my friends posted this video of ECU's running back, Giavanni Ruffin, on their Facebook yesterday evening. It was 11:00pm at night and I was ready to put on my old soccer cleats and hit the field for some drills! Unfortunately (and luckily) the high school across the street doesn't keep their field lights on past dark. So I made a commitment to myself to wake up early for Body Pump this morning at the gym. And yes, 8:30am is early to me considering I've been partying all night and sleeping until work at 2:00pm. But Giavanni said something that was so powerful that I was still motivated 9 hours later -

"Some of you say you want to be successful but you don't want it bad enough. You only kind of want it. You don't want it badder than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep... if you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep."

How Bad Do You Want It

He was so right! Yeah, I want to be in shape and healthy, but I'd rather sleep in after being up all night with my friends. I want to be on the lake or at the pool all day instead of running the bleachers. I've always admired people who have the drive to stay up to work until the early hours of the morning, get a couple hours of rest and then wake back up to do it all over again. And I have always wondered why in the world would you want to live like that? They don't enjoy it. But they enjoy reaping the rewards and they have the motivation of success behind them. They have a goal and their eye on the prize (for lack of a better cliche).


My motivation? Now, it's wanting it bad enough and surrounding myself with people who want to reach their goals just as bad. Yeah I wanted to be healthy and successful very badly. But now that I  think about it, I only "kind of wanted it." I didn't want it enough to skip a night of drinking or a day at the lake. But these activities aren't going anywhere. I'll always have my friends, LKN will be bumpin' just as hard next weekend and I can get as much sleep as I want if I go to bed at a reasonable hour. What do you want as bad as breathing?


Of course, the comments underneath of the video were cynical, talking about how the music editing was sloppy, the form of his weight lifting was terrible, etc. Completely missing the message. If you read yesterday's post, you know how I feel about people whose main objective is to find and exploit any flaws and have nothing positive to say. What a horrible way to live.

On a lighter note! What are your goals? What motivates you?