Our moods and emotions fluctuate with changing context, situations and happenings. The actual ‘you’ is invisible to people. Who you are today is what was shaped by the decisions made yesterday. All decisions are shaped by what is known as the Core 8 Human drives, a psychological framework often used to understand human motivation. It is classified under these broad areas:
Relational Drives
The Drive to Bond: The innate desire to form connections, build relationships, and feel a sense of belonging with others.
The Drive to be Known: The need for others to recognize our true selves, validating our identity and presence in a social group.
Intellectual and Personal Growth Drives:
The Drive to Know: Often referred to as the "drive to learn" or "comprehend," this is fueled by curiosity and the desire to make sense of the world around us.
The Drive to Grow: The pursuit of self-improvement, skill mastery, and the realization of one's full potential.
Achievement and Impact Drives
The Drive to Acquire: The impulse to obtain physical objects, as well as intangible status, power, and influence.
The Drive to Accomplish: The motivation to achieve specific goals, complete tasks, and feel a sense of mastery or "competence".
The Drive for Significance: The need to feel important, unique, or that one’s life and work have a meaningful impact on the world.
Survival and Stability Drives
The Drive for Safety: Also called the "drive to defend," this is the baseline need to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our property from harm.
Why is this important for you to know? Because then you will be able to dive beneath the surface of your problem to understand what is driving your behaviors. Drives are like appetites—they must be satisfied. Many people have chosen illegitimate and even illegal ways of satisfying these drives. In so doing they have formed uncontrollable and insatiable habits, lusts, and addictions. When these drives are not brought under the Lordship of Christ, they will cause you to lose control of your soul and form unhealthy attachments to satisfy your longings. This is what happened to the prodigal son in the Bible. His drives were not bad; it was the way he attempted to satisfy them that led to his self-destructive behavior.
Mastery in your life starts with mastery of your thoughts, which is equivalent to self-discipline. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do and who you become. We have all heard of the phrase “mind over matter.” John Irving, a novelist and Academy Award–winning screenwriter, once wrote, “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own.”
The Bible states, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.” You do not need to be a product of your environment or imprisoned by circumstances. Self-discipline enables you to control your thoughts so that you control your destiny.
God can perform psychological and emotional laser surgery with His Word. When you understand your sinful nature and ask for forgiveness Jesus will cleanse you and transform you. The Bible says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all our unrighteousness.”. May you be led by His spirit and reflect His nature. Remember, you are a child of God.
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