When I was a practicing therapist, I would often talk with my clients about "knowing our why.” Our “why” was the reason, or reasons, we told ourselves was the impetus for the actions, or inactions, we took in life. When we know our “why,” we can more clearly understand the “what” we must do to achieve this “why.” And our “what” always sends us back to our “why,” so that the process is circular in nature, as well as progressive.
