What is Your "Big Why"?

What is Your "Big Why"?
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to become rich when I grow old. At that time of my life, I never had a strong enough “why” that made me move toward something I wanted in life. In fact, my “why” was just a fearful one of ending up like my parents who were often fighting about money.

After twenty years of being an employee, I would have been broke any day I left my job. What a pity! I was navigating through life from one pay cheque to the other without any big why that would act as my life’s purpose.

It took me quite a long time for my “big why” to start taking shape in front of my eyes. At that time, I was in my mid thirties.

What I learned during this process was that long-term thinking made the process easier. The further I looked into my future, the less prejudgment I had on whether my ambitions were achievable. I started thinking about what I wanted my life to be like in five and even ten years.

The first draft of my list included my personal and financial ambitions with a time horizon of five to ten years.
I started to look at threads on my list and how the different points related to each other. I found that the things I wanted in life can in fact be regrouped into the following areas of life:
• Home and family
• Health and fitness
• Work, career, and finances
• Personal development and education
• Social life and relationships
• Spiritual development and life contribution


It was a remarkable discovery that my personal ambitions came first, before my financial ambitions. What I discovered is that my financial ambitions acted like enablers for me to achieve my personal ambitions.

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