When Joe Frazier was heavyweight champion of the world, a journalist asked him, "Why do you box?" Frazier replied, "Because I'm a boxer," and seemed irritated that the interviewer didn't understand. The critic H.L. Mencken said in 1932: "I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs." <Tab/>Where does this kind of motivation come from? Are people like this trapped by blind instinct or …showed first 75 words of 969 total…

…showed last 75 words of 969 total…Hierarchy of Needs, where the highest form is the self-actualization level. <Tab/>People who take the trouble to create a mission based on values gain clarity about what they really want, independent of what seems possible. Creating a statement of an ideal reality allows a person to start building bridges between the current state of affairs and the ideal one. In short, values provide leverage for mission, and mission motivates achievement.