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As a participant of The 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge, today I was asked what my ‘why’ is.  Why do I want the ‘freedom lifestyle’?

I want to have a thriving online coaching business that makes a global impact so that I can take my work all over the world with me.  But that isn’t the real answer to this question!  It runs deeper than that.

In this context I like to think of ‘WHY’ as an acronym:

W. What

H. Honours

Y.  You

?

A ‘why’ that stays the course is about honouring your own values, firstly focusing on yourself (no, that’s not selfish- you can’t give from an empty cup, as the saying goes) and secondly the impact you may feel called to make on others.  (As a side note, your ‘why’ also needs to be bigger than your ‘but’, which you can read about here.)

FIrstly, the ‘freedom lifestyle’ would allow me to spend my time on my own terms, going where I please when I please, with plenty of opportunities to refill my well of inspiration.  (Yeah, I’m a creative-type!)  I get to decide the hours I work, who I work with and have enough ‘me time’ to recharge.  Not having this could cost me my health, as it has done in the past.

Secondly, living the ‘freedom lifestyle’ would allow me to impact the lives of others because I’d be a walking (and driving, flying…) demonstration that it’s possible for anyone to have it!  It also would mean I could really leverage my time to help more women with having the confidence to be themselves in a world telling them who they should and shouldn’t be, and what they should or should not do.

Now that’s powerful.

To help with today’s post, the recommended listening was a podcast with David Mead on the power of ‘why‘.  It’s a useful tool to help explore the kind of impact you want to make on the world, which helps to upscale your vision.  This goes beyond the regular ‘why’ you have motivation to do something (however great the leverage) and enriches it with a greater sense of purpose.  With this in mind, my kick-ass ‘why’ statement is this:  To empower women to be to true to themselves, so that they have the confidence to positively impact the world in their own unique way.  OH, YES!

What’s your ‘why’?  What does that give you?  Let me know and comment below!

This blog post is in response to Natalie Sisson’s 10 Day Free Plan Blog Challenge.

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