If you are looking for your own motivation, look to your own history to find someone who was unhappy with their place in the world, honor your entrepreneurial spirit, and look to your own future. When you know clearly what you want and why, you can focus on that goal and overcome challenges with vendors, employees and even family members so that these moments become obstacles rather than precipices from which you cannot get off. Many generations of rednecks grew up in a “hole in the wall,” as they called the little house in the valley hollow where they hoped to find work in the mining industry. Want to know how to find your own motivation? First you have to pull the lever on yourself. They ended up in Virginia, one brother went south, the other went to the Appalachian Mountains in southern Virginia. And the reason I’m on the world stage today is because this man set a goal for himself; “he” saw a better future for himself and “his” family. As long as you don’t commit to doing something really unpleasant that you want to avoid, those moments when you have to do something, but it won’t come easily. The results can vary, depending on your efforts to practice, role-play, and hold your staff accountable for applying what you’ve learned. This is my story about leverage, the power we use to change our lives. My message to you is simple: we should be grateful for everything we have today, but it is equally important to be grateful for all the people who came before us and on whose shoulders we stand today. Strength comes from discovering a life-changing event in some people’s lives in the past. A family moved in with relatives for a few years. He went to school, became a carpenter and mastered the craft so well that “he” became a general contractor. It is because of “him” that I am writing this as an informational entrepreneur, not as someone trying to make a living in a mining pool. This man, after all, was my great-grandfather. Hope and encourage this new way of thinking to transform your business.