Live Your Dreams With The "What's YOUR Why?" Simple Strategy

Have you ever thought about what’s truly important to you? What gets you up in the morning? What drives your decisions? 

Live Your Dreams

Talking a lot about setting goals…have you ever tried to uncover why something is important to you? If your answer is no, you should. knowing your “why”, enables you to clearly establish your priorities, and when you do that, making the “right” choices and having the “right” attitude become easier. 

Go through this little exercise called the “5 Whys”, it is a system originally used by the Toyota Motor Corporation. It’s so simple that it cuts to the core as to why we desire something. 

The idea is that whenever you desire to accomplish a goal (or if peradventure something goes wrong), you ask ‘why’.

“Why do I want to accomplish this?” Or, “Why did this go wrong?”

Then, with whatever answer you come up with, you ask ‘why’ to that. And so on, five times.

Here's an example from a previous coaching client, who said he wanted to lose fat. Here’s how it played out:

What do you want to accomplish?
I want to lose weight.

Why do you want to lose weight?
Because I want to fit into a smaller size of jeans.

Why do you want to fit into a smaller size of jeans?
Because when I’m wearing smaller jeans, I think I’ll look better.

Why do you want to look better?
Because when I look good, I feel good about myself.

Why do you want to feel good about yourself?
Because when I feel good about myself, I’m more assertive and confident.

Why do you want to be more assertive and confident?
Because when I’m more assertive and confident, I’m in control and better able to get what I want out of life.

Wow. That’s a lot of detail for a few little questions. In the example above, losing weight really meant being able to get what this client wanted out of life. That is a critical insight. It's not about just losing weight for this client. It’s mainly about self-confidence and sitting in the driver’s seat of his life.

Ok, now it’s time for you to ask yourself. What do you want to accomplish? In other words, what is your main goal? Now ask yourself…

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