What's Your Motive?

From the Tarot of the Crone, the Three of Wands; from the Transforming Dragons deck, Ogrostov:

          The snakes in the cauldron represent the drive to create and expand; two of them seem content to stay where they are, but the third rises upward. It is so easy to stick with what's familiar because it's convenient and the effort required is minimal. But a lot can be missed by not being willing to go beyond the daily trudge. Yet what lies beneath the motivation to develop and grow is important. Ogrostov is the dragon of self-importance, and everything he does is designed to fluff up his image. But such motivation does not last long enough to make it through the challenges that new experiences or projects require. It's better to be driven by something with a more honorable purpose and benefit if anything of worth is to be created.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ~William James