Finding your "Why"

Now is as good a time as any to bring this topic up as I am finding it tough to get back into the swing of things.  
Identifying your "why" can make a big impact on how you approach your daily activities whether they are pleasant or not.  It provides a reasoning and understanding of what drives all of us.  For some, it could be to be more active in our children's lives, for others it could be to improve your daily attitude.  And this isn't just for working out.  Your "why" drives each of us to pursue that in which makes us feel good about ourselves and what we have accomplished.  Your why can be different too for different activities.  I'll use myself as an example.  I truly enjoy helping people and making their day better.  This is a major reason why I love a job that most people would think that the job has "a face only a mother could love".  When it comes to working out, I tell myself (as mentioned in my previous post) that the feeling of starting my day off with a workout is so much better than the additional time in bed.  When I feel better about myself, I am more productive at work and feel like I have more energy at the end of the day to keep up with kiddo.  
I feel having this identified can be the difference between faking it and making it.  A lot of people can crash diet and have short term weight loss or "success" but that waivers over time.  Finding what motivates you and drives you each day to be better is going to be that push you need to get out of bed early or stay up late or push yourself beyond what you thought you were capable of.  Once you have identified that, I feel everyone can make steps towards long term success.

-N