When there's a 'why' there's a way

 Where there's a will, there's a way. We've heard it all before. The power of determination, the challenge to succeed, gutting it out to achieve a goal. Sound good, right? The problem is many people work hard on what they think they should do, but many come up short and wonder what is wrong with them. They bust their butts, stress themselves out, and end up frustrated and failing. And the problem is not with their effort, or even their plans, but that they are focusing on what, not why. 

They make plans with no vision, no passion. They are focusing on what they want to achieve, but forgetting about why. Why do you want to achieve a certain position in a company, a certain level of income, to meet someone else's definition of success.? The real satisfying success comes when you have passion and to have passion it needs to be something you really want. 

Granted we can't all focus on passion, just do what we want. In this world we have to make a living, and that is what makes work, "work". But we can choose to try and find something about our work that really gets us motivated and try to spend the energy on that. Sort of a 'spin' on our work that can motivate us to improve and carry us through. 

And we can choose to find something outside of work that draws us forward, something that we can be passionate about. We can find our 'why' in life. And if we can identify the 'why' we can find the 'what' the way to make it happen. 

So instead of beating yourself up over perceived lack of 'will', search to find the 'why' and you will find the way to meet those goals