Driven to Drawn Launch
Apr 05, 2022
A few months ago we introduced the idea of "Driven to Drawn" on a podcast.
I had 72 email responses within a few hours of sending out a request about being on our Driven to Drawn podcast panels. It seemed like many of you were resonating with the idea that driven-ness has a feel to it that carries a lot of “shoulds” to it but that the drawn felt more like, “I get to”.
We were asked if we thought having drive was bad. Drive is important. We have desires and drive helps us achieve those. However, driven-ness is something that functions mostly unconsciously. Our enneagram type is driven to meet the core need. For example, we had a type Nine say that they don’t feel driven but the more we talked the more he saw that the driven-ness was the avoidance of discomfort while the drawn had to do with his own aspirations. One Nine said, “I am driven to avoid my drawn-ness”. She went on to say that the drawn-ness was disruptive which was why she was driven to avoid it.
Over the years of coaching, I noticed how so many of us, including me,
had no guiding sense of what we wanted to be. Where we were going.
We often have a more clear sense of what we don’t want to be doing. But, if we can remember the better versions of ourselves we can start to aim at that. For us, this is the drawn self. It seems to make sense that what you focus on you are likely to do.
See if you can get a visual in your mind of you at your best. What does that look like? What do you feel? What are you doing? Meditate for 5 minutes on that “you” and see if it doesn’t start to feel better. Then, see if you can move toward embodying the better version of you and test the results. Do you like this person you are becoming? How would you feel if you could be a bit more like that “drawn person” today?
Joel Hubbard
