Many of you have heard something like this in business training’s: “You must have a reason WHY to be successful.”

I was wondering; What if that wasn’t good enough?

In conversations with many successful people, I’ve learned that their reason why tends to be a lot bigger than those less successful. And it doesn’t matter which area or type of success were talking about. Sports, Business, Relationships, Politics, etc.

I’ve told many people along the way that in my opinion “you need to have a compelling reason why!” Your reason why you are doing what ever you do has to be so big that it keeps you up at night and wakes you up ready to go each morning! You know, the kind think that makes your goal so personal that you can feel passionate about everything you do, every step of the way.
I like the example of an Olympic athlete. I can’t even imagine what it takes to train like that for years and years. Can you? Where does a level of dedication like that come from? Now, what I can imagine is that they must have a major reason why!  So compelling that the drive to achieve their goal of being an olympian.

In the post “Willing it -vs- winging it!” I talked about how we “charge” the events in our life with specific emotions. And how when we emotionally charge or miss-charge the events in our lives (Especially those perceived as bad ones) we can actually label certain events as failures when the could actually be a big success in the long term.

When it comes to your compelling reason why… The emotions based in your reason can be very helpful. In fact, the drive based in emotion can stem from a positive or negatively charged event. In my own life the experience of a personal bankruptcy left me with the energy, desire, and drive to achieve more than I ever imagined. It lead me to creating a six figure residual income that I am still enjoying today!

I’m sure we could name hundreds of the most successful people and trace their drive back the a compelling reason why. And in addition, we can count on the fact that they started to make better choices in life to guide them on their journey to success.

What is your reason why?  Is it compelling enough to carry you all the way to your goal?