Shout out to David, Iris, Rachel, Mona, Jeanne, Kristi. Thanks for sharing the message so others can benefit from our collective experience
Today I want to talk about knowing Why and Knowing Your Why.
For many years, I would help with the onboarding process, and i would always encourage new folks to understand they why to a process. We often times hired experienced people used to approaching situations in varied ways. So I would tell them the newlywed roast story.
By encouraging people to use their critical thinking and analytical skills, it helps us all to be better instead of repeating without thought of improvement. When we ask why, we better understand the reasoning behind a process, which not only helps us with current application, but future modified applications.
Similarly, we should be asking ourselves "why" we do the things we do. Are our behaviors helping us or hindering us. Perhaps, we grew up in a place where complaining was expected as a way to join in conversation but not leading toward a solution. Perhaps, we came from a competitive environment, where sharing information for the good of the whole was sacrificed to maintain top of the leaderboard status. Perhaps being self-deprecating was seen as humility versus speaking words of limitation and doubt. When we take time to understand Why behind our thoughts, actions, and behaviors, we can replace them with the values we intentionally want to experience and share.
So as you go through the week, instead of just going through the motions, ask yourself "why" and if you need to make a change Why Not Make that Change now?!
