On Work and Finding Your Why

Careers don’t work the way they used to. Humans used to hunker down for 35-40 years with one company, gather their pension and head off to Florida for retirement. For every ten that were satisfied with their role, thousands just did it to put food on the table.

Things are different now. Humans are quitting jobs in record fashion just to snag a role that pays marginally higher or to seek a better culture. Hoping that the added money, responsibility or perks will fill the void of sadness. We still power through the 40 or so hours a week in hopes of making it to the weekend.

Things don’t have to be this way. All we need is to flip the script. Instead of placing ourselves in a dense forest in search of a map we can start with the map and the forest is ours.

Meaning comes from within and it all starts with your why.

This is the singular purpose that drives humans in everything that we do. Once we know our why, we can display it in our work, volunteering, family life and every other facet of our existence.

Our why is how we architect our lives for the better. Here’s an example.

My personal why statement is:

Changing the way humans think about success.

Everything I do in this life reflects that statement. I work for a company that changes the ways homeowners see home finance and reduces barriers for the average American. Every week I’m changing the way homeowners think about success.

This very blog I’m writing is a part of an entire company focused on my why that provides videos, courses and articles around the topic of success. Even the blockchain articles I write are with the same why statement in mind.

It’s not what I do that drives my why. It’s my why that drives what I do.

Once we all can make that change, a career won’t just be something you HAVE to do.