Coaching practices for Use Your Why to Decide
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I did the whole find-your-purpose exercise, felt great for a day, and then it just sat there untouched
- I say we exist for one thing, but when I look honestly at where my time and money and hiring actually go, they’re optimizing for something else
- When I talk about what I do I just rattle off the tasks and the features, and people’s eyes glaze over
- I’ve got an announcement to make and I’m about to do what I always do
- I keep trying to dream up my purpose from scratch, like I have to invent it
Practices that may help
- Test your why against real decisions
Validate the why by using it as a filter for choices, then refining where it doesn’t fit.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - 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. - Use the Why as a decision filter
A stated Why that doesn’t actually filter decisions is just branding — the Why has to determine the choices.
Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose - 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 - 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 - Mine your defining stories
Find your why in your past — recurring themes across the moments that shaped you.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - 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 - Define your HOWs
Translate the abstract why into a few concrete principles for how you operate.
Find Your Why, Made Practical - 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 - Test your actions against the common good
Ask whether what you’re about to do serves or damages the common good — not just your interests.
Sympatheia — the Stoic Practice of Universal Interconnection
Related concerns
- Find Your Why When Starting Out
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Find Your Why With My Team
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.
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