11/03/2018 at 8:01pm

You can learn a lot from just observing animals. I want to share a message about DRIVE that I learned while I was going thru a storm. I wish I could tell you it was an encouraging word from a girlfriend or advice column. It came from a caterpillar.

To drive is to propel or carry along by force in a specified direction. This urgent instinct can be rooted by needs like hunger and thirst.

A caterpillar has no clue of its potential or how beautiful they were created to be. They are oblivious to the beauty on the other side. And yet they still push forward with their instinctive drive…to live!

What you may not know is that the adult monarch butterfly is very particular about the leaf it chooses to lay up to 500 eggs. The butterfly chooses a leaf to lay one egg at a time with a goal to seek leaves it would eat. When the egg hatches the caterpillar eats the leaf itself.

Now here comes the tricky part. The same leaf that they like to eat can also be deadly to them. It is a type of milkweed plant where there is glue residue from the latex of the plant. Some caterpillars die on the first bite. After hatching, the caterpillar grows, shedding out of its own skin and eats, eats, eats. After a certain period, he hangs himself upside down by a silk button and the metamorphosis occurs in this stage.

By now I know your probably thinking why am I so fascinated by caterpillars? I don’t remember how I stumbled upon reading about caterpillars, but I do know I was going thru a season that I needed some inspiration. I had to get my drive. I had to motivate myself. I had to rediscover what drives me.

What drives you to do what you do everyday? What motivates you? Trust everything is working in your favor. Go back to the basics and tap into what drives you!