By knowing your why you can make great changes in your life
To know your why is the entrance o any success in life. It’s more; by knowing your why the rest will fall into place almost by itself.
Most things in life start with a passion and motivation to achieve something. It could be everything from creating a product to starting a relationship with somebody.
Your brain has two parts influencing you when making a decision. You have the emotional component and, fortunately, also the rational part. As emotions always drive passion and motivation, it’s common that the brain’s emotional part also dominates when you make decisions.
The very first moment when you fall in love with somebody, it’s 100% emotional. Not until the first abundant emotion leverages the rational part a long-term relationship actually can start.
The same goes for product inventions. Thousands of designs were never launched or failed tremendously because there was no need or demand for the product. One of the weirdest ones I know of in modern times is the Motorola cellphone with a built-in electric razor.
Whatever “crazy” idea pops up, if you know your why you will automatically oblige the rational part of your brain to take over the work.
The “ why ” will announce the value of the product or the company.
How to Convince People by Knowing Your Why
In my early career, starting up as a salesman of vacuum cleaners sold door to door, we never sold vacuum cleaners but clean and healthy homes. That’s why a live demonstration in the customer’s home was always the winning strategy.
When a sufficient number of dust piles were loaded on the carpet of the client, it was no longer a product discussion but a health issue, and most of the customers prioritized their family’s health much higher than a simple vacuum cleaner.
The famous consultant and author Simon Sinek explains the power of knowing your why elegantly.
Simon Sinek is talking about the “Golden Circle,” starting with “What” in the outer circle, continuing with “How” in the next layer, and finishing with “ Why ” in the middle.
Transforming this formula to a company, the “What” represents the strategy and what the company is doing. The “How” describes the tactics and how the company is doing what they are doing.
And finally, the “Why” has not even a name because everyone so often forgets it. Well, making a profit, may somebody say, but that is the result and not a substantial purpose.
Your why is the purpose of what you are doing!
It can be everything from a strong culture in the company to the product’s purpose. The values an organization can deliver produce almost a magic trust among the potential consumers. When Apple launched its very first iPhone, its success was already guaranteed before the launch.
The leading players, Nokia, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson, and some others, were fighting hard in the market to gain market shares based on many years in the market, and suddenly Apple as a newcomer in the segment, literally swept the market. Why? Trust in the brand.
To have a purpose beyond profits and personal benefits is the key to any success in life. If you have a precise definition of your “ why,” the rest will be much easier. The “how” and the “what” will fall into the game almost on autopilot.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Doing business online is an excellent example of the importance of defining the “why” clearly before even getting started. All the scams and false “get-rich-quick” schemes out in the market do not inspire any trust. It is the opposite, and they will make you skeptical and defensive.
When quitting my corporate life and starting up as an independent entrepreneur at the age of 62 had a very particular purpose for me. Freedom and a lifestyle allow me to be more with my family, travel, and dedicate more time to my passion as a marathon runner.
Knowing Your Why has no Price
Of course, the money will be needed to do all this, but it will come as a result of well-executed work with my business. The purpose of the general public listening to me is my real “ why.” Providing experience and knowledge to allow other people who might identify with my story and help them achieve their goals is driving me every day to work with my online business actively.
When somebody is signing up to the system and platform I have been working with for the last 5+ years, the happiness and satisfaction are on the highest level. It’s not for sale, from a money perspective, but rather for the opportunity to help somebody who probably was in the same situation as me some years ago.
The whole process must be built on trust.
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If you have a corporate job right now, do not quit, but try this new opportunity in your spare-time. That’s the way I did it. You can explore and develop your new online business without feeling any pressure.
It took me less than 6 months before leaving the corporate world forever and starting a new journey where every day is a day of joy and happiness.
When knowing your why you may also be ready to start the same journey I am on right now.
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