Lessons for a father - What, Why, How and the 2/3rd!

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I like clarity in what I do. I would like to think that a lot of us do. Clarity, however, needs a few questions to be answered.

The most important question after we figure out WHAT we are doing is WHY we are doing it. If there is a reason to our effort, our deed is not in vain. Even if we falter, our attempt has a direction and a purpose. 

What we do, coupled with why we are doing it, definitely answers 2 of the 3 most important questions.

Now to the third question. HOW do we do what we do if we know why we are doing it?

Here is my belief. If we know why we are doing something, we would know exactly how to do it.

By keeping the end result in mind (WHAT) and the reason to do it (WHY), the HOW would make itself very evident.

Take, for example, our intent to become good citizens of a country. That is what we want to do. We want to do it so the country that we represent is well projected (one of the many examples of why we would want to be model citizens). If we really believe in what we are doing and why we are doing it, there might be little need for written laws. We would all know how to do what we want to do.

Good leadership and parenting are other examples (in many more) of what we might want to accomplish. We want to become better leaders and parents to help nurture individuals with a capacity to think and lead in their own way. Again, how we do that can become very clear to us, almost automatically, as long as we answer the WHAT and the WHY.

The what and the why answer 2/3 of the questions that we would need to accomplish results and taste success. As long as we do that, how we do that should come very naturally to us.