Know Your "Why"

Know your “Why”

Know your ‘Why’ or more apt would be, do you know your “Why”. In this fast track life, all those who lose focus from “Why” and drift towards “How” often get left behind in the race of progress. While we focus our telescopes on the “Hows” of life.  How to get money? How to get a job? How to establish a business? How to build a house?  Seldom we realize a simple thing, that all those who have succeeded in life, they have always pondered over the “Whys” of life rather than the “ hows”  to meet  an end. They have been always convinced beyond doubt about their “why” and knew that the “how” would automatically follow. I know it’s not making much sense at this moment. It would be much clearer as we unfold ahead. Ambanis’ the business tycoons, after their eminence in the Textile industry moved towards Telecom and Refinery industry, but by no means  they  possessed any form of technical expertise to establish a foot hold in any of these fields. With the clarity of “ Why” in their mind, they knew for “how to establish” they would hire people, who would establish it  for them. So, a person who knows the “Why” would always be at a higher pedestal than the person who knows the “how”. In a correct perspective, a person who knows “how to do” would always work for the person who knows “ why to do”. Thus we see “Why” takes precedence over “How”.

          In a lucid manner, we can understand it as, a Civil Engineer who knows how to erect structures would always work for a person, who knows why to build structures, unless this engineer himself has a vision of his own, “why to build”, he would continue to work under someone.

          We must  answer the questions of life in terms of “why” rather than “how”. The “how” is seen by the short sighted people and the answers to which exhaust in a very short span. Where as your “why” is like an investment in a blue chip company lasting in the long run with compounding returns. Always, be a part of the bigger picture, posses the ability to think analytically to perceive the larger objective, unless done so, the distinction would never be achieved.   

          I am sure, the epitome of charity, mother Terresa, never looked towards the “ how” but she had a formidable “why”  for the cause, and today we have millions of people who are making things happen for her charitable trust. 

          Even the history is testimony to this fact, there were people who toiled day and night to build Taj Mahal as one of the finest creation of mankind.  And today, the world doesn't remember the man, who laid the final stone, but remembers Sahajhan, who conceived it in his “why”.

          Whether our domain is microscopic or capacious, if we can infallibly address the “whys” the answers to the “Hows” would automatically fall in place and then the transcendence in life is for sure. Therefore know your “Why” clearly and you will find people, who know, how to make it happen for you.