101 Reasons Why I Do What I Do

Earlier today I was cleaning up my computer’s desktop and I had a folder saved called “101 Reasons Why I  Do What I Do”. I opened it up and found out there was only one thing written down in this Microsoft word document.

“Write out a list of 101 reasons why you do what you do. Scott says it’ll help you understand more about why you are the way you are and how you can better capitalize on it.”

This was written while I was attending the Extreme Business Makeovers event while Scott Ginsberg of HELLO My Name Is Scott was giving a speech. Scott is a young guy who I really connected to when he spoke. He was just like where I’m at a few years ago when he graduated college. He knew he wanted to live a fulfilled life and knew that working for someone else wasn’t really the way he was going to do it.

Scott said something that really resonated with me during his speech, “If you don’t know where you’re going, no one can stop you”. This pretty much sums up what I’ve been doing for the past few years. I had a general idea of what I wanted to do, but I really don’t know EXACTLY where I’m going and how I’m going to get there.

Scott had talked about how difficult it was for him to create his list of 101 reasons but he said it helped him out. When he said that, I opened up a word document and vowed to do that. Well, I got busy and just got to it today. I decided that since my brand is now evolving that I should probably share my list with you. I am a little hesitant about sharing this list because it shares some things that I feel weird about sharing.

But, this is part of me stepping out of my comfort zone and evolving as a person. So here goes nothing.

101 Reasons Why I Do What I Do

1. To make money
2. To make Dad proud
3. To make Mom proud
4. To learn
5. To teach others
6. To help others
7. To encourage others
8. To share my story
9. To inspire others
10. To gain knowledge
11. To impress friends
12. To remember things
13. To impress girls
14. To find true love
15. To have money to do fun stuff
16. To relax
17. To travel
18. To expand my consciousness
19. To improve as a person
20. To have more energy
21. To get stronger
22. To get in better shape
23. To never be fat
24. To be honest with myself
25. To challenge myself
26. To grow as a person
27. To improve my flexibility
28. To be successful
29. To have more free time
30. To enjoy my free time
31. To make money without working
32. To own a nice house
33. To live wherever I want
34. To travel whenever/wherever I want
35. To prove to myself that I can do it
36. To live an interesting life
37. To have no regrets
38. To live on a beach
39. To golf once a week
40. To meet cool people
41. To create memories
42. To have residual income
43. To step outside my comfort zone
44. To get over my fears
45. To be a leader
46. To get more business
47. To unwind
48. To connect with people
49. To be better
50. To be faster
51. To enjoy my time on Earth
52. To fulfill my personal legend
53. To satisfy women
54. To leave people craving more
55. To have clear skin
56. To be tan to look good
57. To get my Real Estate license
58. To buy houses
59. To sell houses
60. To buy a golf course
61. To look cool
62. To own my own island
63. To learn to surf
64. To provide a place to get away to friends/family
65. To brainstorm great ideas
66. To make my first million
67. To make my first billion
68. To backpack across Europe
69. To live in Australia for 3 months
70. To learn to live off the land
71. To go to the NBA finals
72. To go to the Stanley Cup
73. To hold the Stanley Cup
74. To go to the Masters
75. To go to the World Cup
76. To go to the Summer Olympics
77. To go to the Winter Olympics
78. To have stories to tell my children (when I have them)
79. To provide for my children (when I have them)
80. To try something new
81. To find my true talents
82. To live life according to these talents
83. To have more sex
84. To have better sex
85. To teach people to juggle
86. To make people smile
87. To meet my mentors
88. To write a book
89. To do something meaningful
90. To make more money than my brothers
91. To make more money than my dad
92. To be written about in books
93. To be memorable
94. To give back
95. To make people’s lives better for knowing me
96. To never worry about money
97. To be someone worth meeting
98. To be one with the world
99. To own multiple businesses
100. To love someone unconditionally
101. To pursue happiness

Well, there you have it. There is a list of 101 reasons why I do what I do. Now I challenge you to do the same thing. It’s a lot harder than it looks and believe me, you WILL learn something about yourself. Looking back on all of these reasons why I feel like I will always have a reason WHY from now on. If I’m struggling to finish a project or to do something, I will always have this list to look at to keep me motivated.

My only question to you is…Will you make your own list or will you just carry on with your day? The choice truly is yours. I’d love if you would commit to doing a list with me. You don’t have to share it publicly like I did here because honestly it is weird having a list like this out in the public. However, I feel like it will help me grow as a person and that’s why I chose to share it.

Leave a comment below telling me IF you plan on creating a list for yourself. It’s a challenge that you will be happy you finished.

ps- I got STUCK at 49 initially. Let me know where you get stuck. I look forward to hearing from you.