What Is Your Why-Power?

“You’ve got to have a reason if you want to make significant improvements to your life. And to make you want to make the necessary changes, your why must be something that is fantastically motivating—to you. ”

Hello, my awesome subscribers! What’s poppin’?

This is the part where you reply, “Brand new whip, just hopped in." ?? lol… Shout out to Jack Harlow. ??

I’ve been a tad?busy recently, and my birthday was just a few days ago. Yes, you can still wish me a happy birthday. I almost didn’t want to write this newsletter, but then I remembered the promise I made to myself when I first started—to stay consistent and send out newsletters bi-weekly, and I decided to suck it up.??

Nevertheless, I hope you find this newsletter useful and that you learn something from it. This newsletter will be about discovering why you want what you want and why you are putting so much work into that particular decision you have made. It is about finding your mojo—your why-power.

What is your why-power?

What is it that most moves you? What is the source of your passion, your enthusiasm, the fuel for your perseverance? The power of your why is what motivates you to persevere through the arduous, mundane, and laborious tasks. It is that which drives you to learn that new tech skill, take that lengthy course, and put in those long mornings and nights. And only when you connect your choices to your desires and dreams do they become meaningful. The wisest and most motivating decisions are those that are aligned with what you identify as your purpose, core self, and highest values.?

What is your "why”? ??

You have to want something, know why you want it, and work consistently to achieve it, or you’ll give up too easily, and until you’ve established your desire and motivation, you’ll abandon any new path you seek to improve your life. If your why-power isn’t strong enough, you’ll end up like everyone else who makes a New Year’s resolution and then abandons it too soon, reverting to sleepwalking through bad decisions. And that’s why most people start something, and they do not make it to the finish line. They pick up a course or skill and abandon it halfway. They keep testing the waters and trying so hard to find their way. Life is already hard as it is, and not knowing why you do what you do or want what you want makes it even harder.??

I love this analogy that?Darren Hardy ?used to drive this concept home.

If I were to put a ten-inch-wide, thirty-foot-long plank on the ground and say, “If you walk the length of the plank, I’ll give you twenty dollars,” would you do it? Of course, it’s an easy twenty bucks. But what if I took that same plank and made a roof-top “bridge” between two 100-story buildings? That same twenty dollars for walking the thirty-foot plank no longer looks desirable or even possible, does it? You’d look at me and say, “Not on your life.”

However, if your child was in the opposite building, and that building was on fire, would you walk the length of the plank to save him? Without question and immediately—you’d do it, twenty dollars or not.

The risks and dangers were the same, so what changed? You guessed it right.

I really hope that after reading this, you will dive deeper into your subconscious to find your core motivation and ignite your superpower. Your why-power.

In my next newsletter, we are going to be switching things up a little bit. Until then, remember to give yourself grace. ??

Thank you for being part of ETS.

Stay Jiggy.??

Citations:

• Hardy, Darren.?The Compound Effect : Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success . Vanguard Press, New York, NY, 2010, p. 61-65.