"WHY" Is More Important Than "HOW"

Sure, how it will happen is always important. Why is even more important than how, though. If we know why, I do not promise that how will come on a silver platter, but we are that much closer to getting what we want to get done, done. Sure, I believe in the subconscious mind and understand the Reticular Activating System within the brain pretty well, as well as how it functions. Indeed, though, if we do not know why we want it to function or are not definite, it really is hard to get things done.

That is what makes the "why" of things more important than the "how" of it all. If we want to get where we want to go, however many obstacles there seem to be, we must be definite with our why reasons for achieving it, not so much the how.

So, let me explain the role of the "how" reasons for achieving things right now. Whatever the goal, they are below your genuine "why" reasons for achieving what you need or want to achieve because of their nature. "How" is simply a vehicle. "Why" is the core reason for achievement. Without that why, you may as well not even "turn on the motor of the vehicle" if you know what I mean, colloquially.

Think about a low paying job and comfort zones for a moment: They exist as the ultimate how reasons for making a living without a strong why reason for them. Then when you think about the reality of high pay and great returns, those come with the best why and how reasons for them in that order because the reasons for their practice are in order of priority and in balance with each other, meaning why and how. The strongest "how" reasons with the most power behind them without an even stronger "why" reason for it spells disaster for this reason: Power without direction is useless always unless it is lucky enough to get somewhere meaningful by pure good fortune. Power with direction is a balanced why and how reason that works in all ways. That is my point.

For example, the San Francisco 49'ers team won a lot of Super Bowl games over the decade of the 1980s, why?: You had Joe Montana as quarterback, the "why" reason behind those wins, and Jerry Rice, the receiver, the "how" reason behind those wins. Breaking down the reasons "why" cannot exist without "how", I also came up with this for the Los Angeles Lakers, they have a great "how" in LeBron James, but they have not had a sufficient "why" over the past few years of seasons which is why they come short. They have had "so much winning in the past" that they cannot help but live in the past on past accomplishments without developing a sufficient "why" reason to really win, and like I said, all the "how" power in existence will go in circles without direction or accomplishment unless there is a sufficient "why" reason to accomplish anything.

So, we must know why we want to accomplish anything before the how works, that is the complete lesson in this article.