Are You Asking, "Why Not?"

If someone you love calls you with an emergency, you rush to help, right? It's because your "why not" or your reason for doing it, is clear and important to you. You don't have to give it much thought. Your action and responses are automatic.

When your reasons for doing something are BIG enough, you'll have the necessary motivation to make sure it happens. If you want to run your first marathon, start your own business, run for a political office, write a book, take that trip you've always dreamed of, you first have to answer the question: Why not?" Your answer builds your case for staying on course to get to where you want to be.

So take the following steps to answer your "Why not?"

1. Write out your 'why not'. Ask yourself, "why do I want to...______." Write down your answer.
2. Be specific and clear. For example: "I want to become a teacher so I can give kids hope for their future." Or, "I want to start my own business so I can spend my life as I wish." Include how your life will improve if you hit your goal.
3. When you find yourself slipping on your goal, remember or reread your why. Or use it as your personal mantra.

So when you wake up in the morning and your feel hit the ground are you headed off to a day that answers 'why not?' Odds are that right now you know what "it" is that you want to do in your life. Why not?