Be desperate!
The most misused emotion to help win in life
Everyone has a time in their life when they become extremely intentional about a particular goal or endeavor. What drives it — becomes the catalyst to propel ourselves into a mental and physical space where we won’t stop until we’ve reached the goal.
The birth of my second son, was the wake up call to get up and strategize an out from my current department at my job. It had been 3 long hard years. The raises were lame, we didn't accumulate any PTO, and our health benefits weren’t up to par with fellow union members.
During my 12 week leave time, I’d made the decision to transfer out to another department with better pay, benefits, and less physical work.
The only issue was I lacked the proper license (CDL) to apply and that department didn’t train for it.
This is where desperation kicked in. I wanted out so badly I decided to study and take the test myself for the license. I got my hands on the manual for the test and spent every free moment on the clock reading and answering questions at the end of each section.
Once home in the evening, I searched for free online practice tests and took them repeatedly until I knew the information backwards and forwards. After passing the exam to obtain my permit, I spent every…
