Why do we do the things we do?

A question I frequently ask myself these days is why

Why do I work?

Why do I read?

Why do I write?

Why do I exercise?

Each of these questions falls into a category of life, one is health, and the other is one’s career. In actuality they both serve the same purpose, to determine the meaning of one’s life.

Without creative outlets and business ventures, I wouldn’t be the person I aspire to be. One who is driven by creativity and success, always willing to grow and learn from my surroundings, mentors, and failures.

I work to learn, grow, and gain connections that will guide me to success. Success isn’t easy and it won’t occur overnight, you must be willing to work hard, fail, and try again.

1 success is the equivalence of 100 failures.

Remember that. Each failure in your life has taught you something. Whether you chose to recognize it or not, you learned from it. With that knowledge, you can choose to grow or give up. Remain ignorant and dissatisfied, OR rise from the ashes of your failures and succeed.

Knowledge obtained from failure is priceless. Priceless in the sense of what this failure has given you, which is knowledge, experience, and direction. It is up to you to determine how this knowledge guides you moving forward.

Failure is terrifying and incredibly challenging to accept. But it is also essential to growth. I challenge you to be fearless and accept your faults and subsequent failures as lessons. Alter your mindset, YOU didn’t fail, YOUR strategy did. So adjust your trajectory accordingly until you succeed.

Think about it this way. Babies don’t try to walk then give up. They’ll stumble around, bump their head on the ground, and cry until one day they can walk into your shaking, terrified arms. While it can be hard to watch someone fail, especially yourself, you need to constantly remind yourself of your goals. Parents don’t tell their children to stop trying to walk and give up because they know they can do it, it just takes time and practice. Like I said, 1 success is the equivalent of 100 failures. It may be 20 or 200 falls until you get it right and can walk on your own two feet, and that is OK.

I’d rather see you fail 100 times over until you succeed, as opposed to never trying and remaining complacent and unhappy with where you are in your life, out of fear and self-doubt.

I’ve spent so much time doubting myself, conflicted, and worried. I realize now there’s no reason to. As long as you’re always learning, adapting, and growing, you WILL be successful.

Keep asking yourself YOUR why. Why you do the things you do, and how. How you plan to grow and succeed. Hey, it’s basic Darwinism, right?

Kill or be killed.

Work or be broke.

Learn or be ignorant.

Grow or be complacent.

Nothing will change in your life unless YOU seek to change it. You must take the step out of your comfort zone to try something new until one day it clicks. Until one day it just works. On that day you will have discovered the answer to your how.

It’s out there, I promise. Your why is within you, while your how is out there waiting for you to unclose it.

So what are you going to do now? I hope the answer is to try, fail, then try again, until you’ve gathered the knowledge necessary to succeed.

Good luck, but luck is what you need right now, a push is.

So here you go. Do it. Take that job, start that blog, go on that hike, just try and see what happens. Who knows, maybe you’ll succeed on your first try!