Season 1 Chapter 11 -Purpose and Compelling Why

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Chapter 11 Purpose and compelling why if you're a salesperson, you may be familiar with this concept. If not, you're in for a treat. Today we're talking about your compelling why. Dr. Janowitz, tell us what this whole why is about. For those that are not familiar with.

It, why do you ask?

So you know, there's so much it talks about. A lot of people say start with why, like Simon Sinek wrote that question. Great book. And so knowing your why, knowing what is it you want and why you want it are incredibly important, right? So we have to have a compelling why. Because life, let's just face it, can be hard, especially when you're trying to achieve great things. Looking at our health, I mean, knowing your why is just the cornerstone to give you that fuel to persevere. I think when you look at the greats in life, they had a big why. You know, when it comes to eating healthy or exercising, if I'm only doing it for me, I don't have a lot of emotional juice to do that. But when I was single and before being married, my why was to be healthy. So I wanted to deliver the first patient care experience for that morning at 6:45 in the morning, give them the same energy as an intention as I did later on that morning and even at 6 o' clock at night. So for a 12 hour day, I was inspired to keep my body healthy and energized and strong because I knew my why was about giving great care for my patients. Then when I became married, my why was expanded to being a great spouse and then having one child and a second and a third one at 45 years old, my compelling why has propelled me so I will do things to a greater degree of discipline and you will do things to a greater degree and discipline and be consistent with it and make it a habit and a lifestyle. When you are attached to that compelling reason why, to compel you, to inspire you, to motivate you, to drive you to do the things that you need to do that you know you should be doing, but actually do them, and the why is the fuel.

So it's basically something bigger than yourself. It's always bigger than yourself.

It is. When it's about you, everything looks good, including all the things that are unhealthy for us. Right. But when it's about what do I want to do and why do I want to do that, it changes the game. It's the game changer in the whole thing.

It is the game changer. And I mentioned having a sales career and knowing the why, because that's one of the principles in sales is create your why first to empower you to become that powerful salesperson. And this is not a sales video, but it's the same concept. So in order to achieve anything great, you need to have that strong why to motivate you to accomplish that.

Yeah, it was just like when I was going through all the chiropractic school and just hours upon hours, when you're in undergraduate college, you take anywhere between 12 and 15 hours of classroom hours. Well, in chiropractic school, you're taking between 30 to 35 hours of classroom hours and then you're studying another 30 to 35 hours. So you're 70 hours of just this is your life. It's totally imbalanced. It's not a healthy way to live for a sustained period of time. And the only way to get through that is through your knowing your why. Like why that you want to be a physician, why do you want to do this type of work? Anything great in life requires that. So it could be sales, certainly important. And in fact, this is at some level a sales presentation for you to sell you on the concept of taking charge of your health in terms of attaching a compelling reason why you should be healthy and why you deserve to have great health as well.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So once they have their why, now they need to know how to spend their time. And you talk about a rule called the five out of seven rule.

Yes. Yeah. So I love teaching this. When I'm at the college of medicine, I teach all the pre medical students. So there's this wonderful class at UCF University of Central Florida, where I teach a class called Electives of health professions. I've been a guest lecturer there for going on 12 years and spoken to all these students. And I tell them, I said, look, one, I have a belief that you should do what you love and get paid well for it. So I think you can have both. I don't think it has to be a sacrifice. The second thing is that if you don't do what you love and you do this type of work for typically, people work a five day work week out of seven days. If you don't do what you love, then 5, 7 of your life quite literally sucks.

Right.

And if those five, seven days are not good, then you're probably not a good person or happy person the rest of the week. So then probably all of it is. So the five sevens rule sticks to a lot of people because you want to get that compelling why do what you love and make that part of your lifestyle so that it doesn't feel like work. When your why is aligned with your passions and, and it's aligned with what you do and how you give value to this, to your life and to the marketplace, then it doesn't feel like work. It's just who you are. And if it does, then 5, 7 of your life is not so much fun. And I don't want to be.

Yeah, we don't want to be in that position.

No way. No way.

And like they say, if you love what you do, then you'll never work a day in your life. Right.

Amen to that. Amen to that. You may have long days, but they feel very satisfied. Yeah.

So now that we have a better understanding of what a why is, how does someone get more clarity on how to find their why?

That's right. So, you know, a lot of people are like, well, what's my purpose? You know, I understand the value of a purpose. Right. It propels me, it's the fuel, it directs me, it attracts the things in my life. But what I've discovered is that you find your why in your peaks and valley experiences. And we touched on that before in prior episodes. But you need to find the gift in your struggle. And so the very hard part of my life was going through my own health issues with my eyes and with my scoliosis. But then that was the gift that I got from that, is that I didn't want other people to have to go through that experience. And so it really became a mission of mine to help inspire people to see the greatness in their own life. Or maybe they didn't see that. So I was able to use that very negative experience and find the gift and the struggle. And all of you have had struggles in your life, and you have to rephrase it, or what I invite you to do is to say, where is the gift in this? And how can I use this to reinforce my why? So look at your peaks and valleys, look at those struggles. And then also, whenever you're At a peak experience, you've accomplished something of greatness. You're excited about it. You just are at the top of your game. Again, we talked about reflection, using that reflection. Time to go. What is this about? This experience.

That really hit me at the core, and how does that align with who I am and what kind of mission I want to accomplish in life? Like, what's the mark I want to leave to this world for decades past us, hopefully. And so looking at those victories and looking at those struggles will really start to uncover the process of developing and uncovering and discovering and bringing to the world your why.

I love how.

You called it a gift. Because a lot of the times these struggles are hard to see as gifts. We sometimes see them as curses, but they can be gifts and blessings. It's just a matter of, again, changing that mindset. I personally went through that, you know, when going through the healing process of being in a wheelchair. And sometimes it's not revealed to you right at the moment. You know, God has a purpose, as we mentioned, and he has a plan for everyone. And sometimes that purpose and plan is revealed at a later time that's more appropriate than you can, you know, maybe understand it better.

Yes.

So I've had people in my life come to me and say, jenny, your experience helped me get through my experience. And, you know, it was worth. The whole experience was worth it to me just to be able to influence someone else's life like that. And you do that on a daily basis.

Well, you know, thank you. Through my own back issues, which were very scary, very frustrating, I've been able to serve 20,000 people because of that. So you can multiply.

Positivity, you can multiply hope by embracing some of the things that could have been very painful in your life. And many people have done that. Cancer survivors, absolutely. So many people have done so many great things in their life because of that. It's just taking the time to recognize that your life has meaning and your life is worth it. And. And what you have to contribute to others is readily available if you embrace it.

Thank you for sharing that. I hope that everyone out there can find their why. And if you're going through any struggles such as we did, that you can find your gift in that struggle and create victories out of those struggles.

Thank you.