Be committed to the why!

Why do we want something? Why do we want a change? This is the most important question to ask yourself. If we do not have an important reason to want something, it will fizzle. How many times have we all started something and never finished. How many times have we have broken our New Years resolution? If we really want something, then commit to the reason you want it. Our motivation will always get us started on the thing we want but it will not take us to the finish line. So many of us say we want something but do we really? What is that reason.

I know personally, this is what kept me from many things. I would say I wanted to do something but truly did not dig deep and ask myself was it that important to me and if so, why. Once I started asking the question of why, things started falling off my radar! I am serious. I used to say that I wanted to run a marathon. I had run a half marathon and many other races but not a full marathon. I know this went on for almost 5 years of saying “I am going to run a marathon”. Then, I was going to sign up for one and start training and I asked myself why is this important? All I could come up with was to be able to say I did it. WHAT? That was the best answer I could come up with. I thought long and hard (about 30 minutes lol) and decided that was not a strong enough why for me. There were too many other things I felt I could do that would be rewarding to myself by doing something that takes true commitment.

Last week, I had someone tell me that they were not satisfied with themselves because they were so disorganized and seemed to not get things done. And they wanted to lose 20 pounds. She asked, “Do you really think you can help”? I said let’s set up a call and talk about it. She laughed and said you seem hesitant. Oh no, I am confident that I can give you the specific steps to take, the action of how to get to your goal, but I don’t know why you want this. If you are committed to why you want to get organized and lose 20 pounds then I am 100% sure I can get you there. I can tell you what and how but not why. If you are committed to why this is important to you, then of course I can help.