Why Ask Why?

You have to get in the habit of asking yourself ‘why’ constantly and consciously. I touched on this a bit in my last post and wanted to expand on this realization a bit more. I really started seeing changes and results when I questioned myself on seemingly mundane things in my world. Why do I need to have a huge piece of furniture that’s taking up so much space and serving no real functional purpose when I have gym equipment tucked in every nook & cranny around my place?

When I thought about getting rid of this same piece of furniture in the past, I often didn’t make it past the first “why”. Why…because it’s decoration. Why…because it’s too much work to get rid of (hello, living on the 3rd floor). Why….because then I have to figure out something to do with all the other stuff on it. You get the point. It wasn’t until I pushed past a couple rounds of “why” that, at the core, I was just making excuses.

I would complain about not having enough space. I talked about how much I would love to have all my workout equipment in an organized place and not scattered around. I got really hung up on needing to move to get another room just for my workout equipment. As humans, we tend to find a corner to back into and set up shop. We get real nice & comfy in that corner and make it our reality.

After overcoming my excuses and realizing there was no real reason to keep the giant piece of furniture, it was gone within a couple hours. Not only did it open up so much space but now all of my equipment has a home. And since I don’t have to dig through closets for bands, stack & unstack dumbbells to get to a certain set, etc, etc…I actually use everything more.

Moral of the story: asking why is hard if you’re not ready to drop the excuses but if you want to see results, get answers, move forward, etc. then you have to get to the bottom of the issue aka figure your sh*t out!