What Drives Your Life?

Everyone's Life is driven by something. Right now you may be driven by a problem, a pressure, or a deadline. You may be driven by a painful memory, a haunting fear, or an unconscious belief. Here are five of the most common circumstances, values and emotions which drive's our lives crazy.

1. Many people are driven by GUILT. They spend their entire lives running from regrets and hiding their shame. Guilt-driven peopl are manipulated by memories. They allow their past to control their future. They punish themselves by sabotaging their own success. We are products of out past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
2. Many people are driven by RESENTMENT and ANGER. They hold on hurts and never get over them. Instead of releasing their pain through forgiveness, they rehearse it over and over in their minds. Some of them "clam-up" and internalize their anger, while others "blow up" and explode it onto others. Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in you pain, perpetuating the past. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your sake learn from it, and then let it go.
3. Many people are driven by FEAR. Regardless of the cause, fear-driven people often miss great opportunities because they're afraid to venture out. Instead they play it safe, avoiding risks and trying to maintain the status quo. Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what GOD intends for you to be.
4. Many people are driven by MATERIALISM. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because they do not change and eventually we become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.
5. Many people are driven by the NEED FOR APPROVAL. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or friends to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasable parents. Others are worried by what others might think. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

I myself had been driven by those circumstances, values and emotions. And i'd realized that i should be my true self, who am i and what am i, and live my life towards my purpose. =) So What drives your Life?