Finding my WHY!

I've been working on this for months! 

My pursuit to find my WHY!

And I've worked it out!

It's harder than you think to find the thing that drives you everyday not just for certain things but most everything.

I've read book after book, post after post and listened and watched so many TED talks I feel like I'm ready to write and deliver my own. 

What makes this process so hard? 

• Is it because we live in a society that makes us feel smarter than we actually are and when it comes to working something out like this it's impossible to plagiarise the end result? 
• Is it hard because it's so easy to settle in our lazy lives and what's the point of finding out your WHY, I mean to say what will it actually change? 
• Is it hard because it drives your family nuts that your on the next popular thing to do or know and asking weird questions about yourself makes you sound like a narcissist? 
• Is it hard because I've made it that way because nothing is that simple, I have to complicated it for it to have meaning?

Whatever the reason/s I feel unexpectedly content now I've found it and written it down.  I also feel so connected to it that I want it as a slogan on everything in my life. 

It has made me think about the fact that it wasn't exactly a straight forward process though. 

Have I really become that lazy? Or conditioned?

It took effort, and time, I had to actually ask myself why I did all the things I do. Further more it made me question the things I don't do and procrastinate about! I overthink everything and although it pains me to be like this I do accept myself a little more now I have an answer to my WHY. 

The process I ended up following to find my WHY was a series of questions, of asking myself the following on a daily basis;

• Why I got up today?
• Why I showered and got dressed and put on make up?
• Why I clean my house?
• Why I go to work?
• Why I clean up at work?
• Why I do the job I do?
• Why do I look for opportunities?
• Why I won't settle for what I have in life?
• Why I am in a relationship?
• Why I make the choices I make?
• Why I do things over and above other things?
• Why I post stuff?
• Why I spend so much time learning new things?

This hard look into myself has brought me to this small statement which is my WHY. 

"Everything I do must bring about a positive change, it must make me feel proud of what I am doing and it must help others in some way." 

I may tweak the words a little to refine it but this is my raw draft of my WHY! 

What's yours?

And what was the process of your finding it? 

My WHY  has ignited more questions in my life that I now need answers to.