Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success  
Molly Fletcher
Hatchette (September 2024)

How to accelerate your personal growth and professional development 

According to Molly Fletcher, “Dynamic Drive is the spark that ignites the joyful pursuit of a better life…It’s a way of life. A mindset. A daily commitment to live in a way that aligns with your soul. It’s not the linear pursuit of a single goal. Achievement is just part of the journey, not the end goal.

“Dynamic is defined as ‘constant change, activity, or progress; a force that stimulates change or progress within a system or process.’ Key word: progress, not a single moment.”

More specifically, “Dynamic Drive is the process by which we implement and sustain intervention change. Itbis an approach to life that roots success in creating deep alignment with your values and priorities. Dynamic Drive is sustainable because it is fueled by purpose. Instead of depleting your energy, it renews it.”

This is the WHAT on which Fletcher focuses in Part 1. Then in the remaining chapters, she explains the HOW. Shed devotes a separate chapter to each of seven “keys”:

1. Mindset
2. Energy
3. Discipline
4. Curiosity
5. Resilience
6. Connection
7. Confidence

These keys are separate but interdependent. You need to develop all of them to maximize “deep purpose” and alignment during a process that never ends.

As I worked my way through Fletcher’s lively and eloquent narrative, I was again reminded of several observations that are directly relevant to the insights and counsel that she provides:

o “Champions get up when they can’t” Jack Dempsey
o “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb
o “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain
o “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
o “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford

o “Vision without execution is hallucination.”Thomas Edison
o “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” Steven Wright
o “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt
o “I’ve spent most of my adult life struggling to see the world again as a child.” Pablo Picasso (at age 92)
o “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s an original, you will have to ram it down their throats.” Howard Aiken

Molly Fetcher correctly stresses that what she recommends is “a lifelong process to better yourself and your skills. You must constantly reset and assess, even if you’ve worked the Seven Keys and feel like your work with Dynamic Drive is firing on all cylinders. Various keys will require more focus — some will be lit up at the time, and some will fade away.”

XXXXX

XXXXX

* * *

Here are two suggestions while you are reading Dynamic  Drive: First, highlight key passages. Also,  perhaps in a notebook kept near-at-hand (e.g. Apica Premium C.D. Notebook A5), record your comments, questions, action steps (preferably with deadlines), page references, and lessons you have learned as well as your responses to head notes and key points posed within the narrative. Also record your responses to specific or major issues or questions addressed or suggested in the material. Pay special attention to the set of  “Key Takeaways” at the conclusion of Chapters 4-10.

These two simple tactics — highlighting and documenting — will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent reviews of key material later.