What are my motivations?

In order to get real about what you want, you need to understand your motivations.

We all have higher and lower motivations. Or, as James Altucher writes, good reasons and real reasons.

• Higher motivations (good reason) come from our ‘higher’ selves — the person we want to be, or imagine ourselves to be
  
• Lower motivations (real reason) come from our ‘lower’ selves — driven by guilt, desire, ego, uncertainty, etc.
  

We all have these different motivations. The main question is which ones are driving you more and why?

And more importantly: Which ones do you want to drive you more and why? What kind of a person do you want to be?

The point is not to get rid of the lower motivations (that’s impossible), it’s to manage them (instead of letting them manage you).

The point is to get to know them. To be curious about them.