Motivation Monday: Why not you?

It’s Monday, the first Monday of December, the last month of 2024. This is a golden period. If used correctly this period can change your life. It can set you up perfectly for 2025. Here’s how:

I want you to start this golden period off with one question: “Why not me?” 

This question changed my life a few years back.

I was watching everybody around me excel in life. They were finishing their degrees, getting good jobs, getting married etc.

Me? I was doing nothing. I was stuck for four years. Four years of self-doubt, anxiety, depression and every other ailment you can imagine. I even convinced myself i was balding.

Then I came across this quote from the late great Jim Rohn:

“Why not you? You’ve got the brains, you can make decisions, you can study the plan, you can change your life, you can grow immensely in the next few years, you can make your dreams come true, you can become healthy, you can become healthy, why not you?”

This sounds like pretty basic advice, but his words found me in my darkest moments. It flipped my whole life upside down.

I had never asked myself “Why not me?”

From that point onwards, everything changed. Every time I wanted to hide and cower away from something, I asked myself “Why not me?”.

When you ask yourself a question, your brain will look for evidence to prove that question. It won’t look for evidence to disprove it, only to prove it. That’s why questions like “Why am I so useless?” are so dangerous.

From now on, you should not only eliminate every negative question but you should go through life asking yourself “Why not me?”.

Start to believe in yourself like you believe in your friends. You’d never call your friends useless or tell them they couldn’t do it. So don’t do it to yourself either. You’re your own best friend, so start acting like it.

Before we can begin to believe, we have to face our doubts. Doubt is the enemy of all progression. It turns even the smartest men into insecure boys.

Doubt is like a mold. Once it starts to spread, it doesn’t stop. Unless you remove it completely, it will never go away.

If you have any ambition about making it in life, fighting back against doubt should be your highest priority.

Here’s how to eliminate doubt: Look for evidence to disprove your doubt.

This is where the “Why not me?” question comes in handy.

So far you’ve gone all your life looking for reason as to why you can’t make it. I want you to do the opposite now. Look for evidence as to why you CAN make.

You’ll find countless pieces of evidence suggesting that you are more than able to change your life, start that business, do that thing etc.

If you struggle to find evidence then it’s because you’re not being honest with yourself. We have a tendency to overrate other people’s achievements and underrate our own.

Remember, if the why is strong enough, the how becomes easy.

I’'ll end this week’s motivation Monday with a call to action: Start this week by writing down all the reasons why you CAN achieve your goals. Let this exercise guide you though December and beyond.

That’s everything for today. I’ll be back this Friday.

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