Coaching practices for How to Write Your Why
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- If someone asked me right now why I do this
- I want to pin down the few things I most want to have stood for when I look back at my whole life
- I sort of know what drives me but it’s this big foggy feeling I can never pin down
- I’ve got this inspiring purpose written down and it does absolutely nothing for my actual days
- When I talk about what I do I just rattle off the tasks and the features, and people’s eyes glaze over
Practices that may help
- Find Your Why, Made Practical
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research. - Articulate your personal "Why" as a leader
A leader who cannot state their own purpose clearly cannot communicate it to anyone else.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - Write a values declaration as the core of your legacy letter
Name the two to four values you most want to have lived by — then write why they matter to you.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind - Write your Why statement
Capture your purpose in one line: "To ___ so that ___."
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Define your HOWs
Translate the abstract why into a few concrete principles for how you operate.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Start with why (the Golden Circle)
Lead with the purpose behind what you do, not the features of what you do.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Mine your defining stories
Find your why in your past — recurring themes across the moments that shaped you.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - Write the explanation, do not just think it
Put the "why" in writing so vague mental hand-waving cannot pass as understanding.
Elaborative Interrogation: Ask "Why Is This True?" - Capture compelling reasons why
Write the emotional and practical reasons this result matters — the "why" that will sustain action under resistance.
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical - Communicate inside out: Why → How → What
Lead with the belief, then the approach, then the specifics — the reverse of the typical pitch order.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
Related concerns
- Walk Your Why
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
- How To Find Your Why
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
- Use Your Why To Decide
Validate the why by using it as a filter for choices, then refining where it doesn’t fit.
Test your why against real decisions
- What Is Your Why
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
- Find Your Why Exercise
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
- Find Your Why Statement
Simon Sinek’s method says people are moved by why you do something before what or how — so the work is to articulate the purpose, cause, or belief that drives you, captured in a single Why statement. The Golden Circle and the Why-statement format are practitioner frameworks: useful and intuitive, but largely anecdotal in their specifics, even though purpose itself does correlate with motivation in research.
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