The Power of WHY This week I realised something massive, my 52 Habits in 52 Weeks experiment is more than just habits. It is actually about my WHY. For months I thought I was stacking habits, improving discipline, and ticking boxes. But the thing is, the habits were only the surface. The real change , the lasting change, came when I connected them to my WHY. I didn’t begin this journey from a place of thriving. I began because I was tired of going around in circles. Tired of saying, “I’ll start on Monday.” Tired of drifting into a new year on autopilot, dragging the same problems with me.
After radium therapy, and a spider bite that nearly killed me, fighting chronic fatigue, my body and soul were broken. My first WHY was simple: survive and rebuild. Heal my digestion, hormones, circulation, nervous system, just so they could function again. And it worked. One small habit at a time, I started to heal. Week by week, I felt calmer, stronger, more alive.
Then came Africa. Kilimanjaro. Every bottle of water, every walk, every choice had a purpose: the climb. Sure, there were detours, a chocolate here, a glass of wine there, but my WHY was staring me in the face: a mountain and I was determined to conquer it.
When I came home, the spark shifted. Some habits stuck beautifully. Others slipped. I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t feel the same. And then it hit me. In six months, my health and my life had transformed. The routine I once had prior to my holiday I couldn’t get back in the groove. My old WHY, the mountain was gone its now in the past. I had to find out why I was struggling, I had to dig deeper. I realised this week my WHY had changed, and I had to discover my new WHY to finish what I started.
My WHY is no longer about survival, or even a mountain. It’s about commitment. It’s about showing up, not with force, but with intention. It’s about discovering how far I can go when my habits become automatic, when they flow instead of fight.
If your WHY isn’t big enough, your habits won’t last. Behaviour follows belief. Structure follows reason. Without an anchor, habits drift. So I went back to the hard questions: Why do I want this? Why does it matter? Why now? And I realised my WHY can’t just sit in health or one mountain. It has to stretch across every pillar of my life, health, wealth, relationships, career, and purpose.
Habits are the vehicle. The WHY is the fuel. And when the fuel is strong enough, the how becomes easy. The Next Six Months My mission now is simple to finish what I started. Dig deeper into why I do what I do. Learn how habits truly stick and how they shift from effort to automatic.
This isn’t about willpower, or even discipline. It’s about intention. And when your WHY is big enough, the habits follow.
That’s the power of WHY.
