How to Find Your 'Why'

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HOW TO FIND YOUR ‘WHY’

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The importance of finding your ‘why’ is something that can’t be understated because your ‘why’ is the fuel in your engine, the wind in your back, and your reason for doing what you do.

The stronger your ‘why’ is, the more you’ll be willing to do and the further you’ll be willing to go in order to achieve what it is that you want.

We, as humans, make choices for two different reasons: we are either chasing something or we are running away from something.

Something either has to push you or pull you in life, and if you have neither, then you’ll find yourself stagnant. Finding one or the other all comes down to your ‘why’

What does a ‘why’ look like?

A ‘why’ can look like anything, and typically someone would have a surface-level ‘why’ and an underground ‘why’.

Their surface level ‘why’ being something obvious: I want to be an entrepreneur so that I can make loads of money; making loads of money would be your ‘why’.

However, your underground ‘why’ might be that you want to make loads of money because you grew up reasonably poor and you want to look after your parents and allow them to retire early.

Your underground ‘why’ will always be stronger than your surface-level one and will be the real driving force behind why you do what you do.

So, the clearer you can make it in your head, the harder you’ll work, as it’s right in front of you like a carrot on a stick.

So, how do you find it?

Finding it is going to require a bit of soul searching, as the reasons will be indistinguishable from other people, but a good way to make a start is to ask yourself what you want your dream life to be.

Describe it to yourself, and be as detailed as you possibly can.

Once you’ve done that, you need to ask yourself again: Why do you want to live a life like that? What about certain aspects of it make it attractive to you?

You can be lazy and half-assess these questions, or you can put some real thought into them, but the more thought you put into them, the clearer picture you’ll paint for yourself and the one step closer you’ll be to identifying your ‘why’.

And be sure not to mix up your values with someone else's values that you look up to.

Your ‘why’ is unique to you and only to you.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

When was the last time you asked yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’ And you really dug deep into the core answer?

Not the surface-level answer of ‘because it was the easiest option’ or ‘it pays the bills’ but the meaningful answer buried below.

When you do start to ask yourself these questions, you start to become enlightened, almost becoming your own teacher who can wag the finger at yourself for knowingly not choosing your own path.

These are the conversations that you need to have with yourself if you want to pave your own path and live a life that is true to you.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The book of the week is ‘Ego is the enemy’ by Ryan Holiday

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

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LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

You can’t live your life based on the opinions of others. If you truly want something, then you need to go for it 100%, so just remember that you’re living your life for yourself, not for how others perceive you.

The best way to build on your self-advocacy skills is to just do it and learn along the way. Do it while knowing that you’ll mess up a good few times but that you’ll be better off for it.

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