What drives you?
What keeps you motivated? Mine is the smile on my mother's face.
I listen to motivational speakers, I read similar books too and I'm spurred to do something great, to make a difference, change the things around me, solve a problem, make a name for myself but this feeling seem to disappear moments after either reading or listening to a speaker and I'm back to the status quo.
That’s why motivations from outside has a short life. In fact, it has no life at all unless you give it one. I found a lasting solution to this problem, I talk to myself more often than I listen to myself...works all the time. I realized if I could only imagine it then I can create it, everything today first started in the mind of someone and someday I'll grow into that woman in my mind's eye.