Why?

I have read a lot of books over the years and I just found one of the first books I've read about what is called personal development and the title is Life is Tremendous by Charlie "Tremendous" Jones. The first copy was printed in 1968 and it's still one of my all time favorites.    Personal development simply means that we can get better as individuals and reading good material is one of the ways to make it happen.

 

The following is from this excellent book Life is Tremendous.

WHY - NOT HOW

 

Did you ever notice the number of people who spend their time learning How To Do It?  And after they learn, they accomplish very little before they're looking for a new How To Do It.  As soon as they master that, someone announces another How To Do It.  Although technical competence in any field is a necessity, the key to using know-how is know-why.

 

You can teach someone how to do a task, but that doesn't assure his doing it.  But let him discover WHY and he'll learn HOW in spite of all obstacles.

 

This isn't anything new in the personal development field as I heard for years, actually decades, that knowing your WHY is more important than the HOW.   My WHY was simple, I just wanted everything this company offered because I wanted the kind of life it would create.   

 

Do you have a strong WHY? As it says above, obstacles will never stop you when you know WHY.

 

Enthusiastically,

Gary Burke