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“You have to give yourself more and bigger whys so you can keep wanting to put in the effort to grow.”

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 77). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

I think for the most part GOD has put within us the need to know why.  It is what motivates us.  I know as a parent it gets more difficult to keep answering the why questions of our small child or to give them the why for what we want them to do but it is so important in there growing to become who they were created to be. 

I like what John said about his mom. He said, “When I was a child, my mom continually gave me whys to keep me going. She would say things like, ‘If you eat your vegetables, you can have dessert.’ She knew I needed to know the benefits of eating vegetables when I didn’t want to do it. That kind of training set me up for success, because I started to learn the relationship between motivation and discipline.”

I have seen so many adults who have quit asking the why questions and have lost their motivation to live to their full potential and have just accepted the mundane of life as the acceptable way of life.  But there is more to life than just accepting the non-answers to your whys.

Let me ask you, why do you get up each morning and do what you do?  Do you have a good enough why to keep you growing and challenged to keep at it?

Why do you do what you do?   That is a very important question to ask on a continual basis.  Make sure to keep the reason ever before you and ever increasing.  You may need a bigger why for you to keep growing to your full potential.  “You have to give yourself more and bigger whys so you can keep wanting to put in the effort to grow.”

The what and the how are important questions too but the why is what keeps you going and growing.  John also said, “The more valid reasons you have to achieve your dream, the higher the odds are that you will.”

So why are you doing what you do?

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