April 5 | Start With What (You Want)

Does it really matter why? 

It might. It may very well be of unending importance and help—to understand why you are this way, or why things go like that, or why your company exists, or why you want what you want. 

There are at least two downsides to asking why.

One. If you’re asking why you like doing something that is helping you—does it really matter why you’re doing it or why it works if it is working? Again, it might. But life gifts us too many horses to spend all our time looking them in the mouth, searching for problems to jump us. Don’t overlook your relationships or your career, you might want to find out why. But often it’s our egos and need to rationalize everything that leads us to question perfectly good solutions we know nothing about.

Two. If you’re asking why you’re doing something that hurts you, you might find helpful answers. But you might also approach the entire program in such a way that you become an expert in your own vice, wrapping your intellect and feelings and thoughts and time around the very thing you’re trying to avoid. Do you need to know why you do it to change it? You might. But you might not. 

Life has too many important things for them to all be important.

So if it’s not important, and you know what you want, do you really need to know why?… Read the rest