This is one of the most common questions I get when someone learns I’ve written a book. It’s a great question.
I own a small business in Fort Collins, Colorado, and have a business coach who helps me with all-things entrepreneur (Buffini & Company, highly recommended if you own a business). My coach is Darrin, and Darrin is a connector. If I were to say to Darrin, “I want to get better at journaling,” he would tell me to call Bob Smith because Bob is great at journaling.
Well, my wife and I have what we consider an awesome Big Why in our lives. So whenever someone shares with Darrin that they lack purpose, or they’re bored with what they do, he tells them to call me.
Over the course of several months in early 2015, I received about four or five of these phone calls. I would tell them my story: my wife and I help save children from human trafficking and it drives us in everything we do and influences major life decisions. They, in turn, would say, “That is so cool…” What they didn’t say, but I could tell they were thinking, was “…for you. But that does not help me figure out my Big Why.”
This became incredibly frustrating. I want to help people so when they reach out to me and I can’t, I don’t like it. Fast forward a few short months to May 2015. I am at a business conference and I heard this phrase: “Some of you in this room know what your quantum leap is going to be and it may not have anything to do with real estate.” That is when the light bulb went off. I was going to write a book that would help anyone who needed help figuring out their purpose on this planet.
There is a gaping hole in the world filled with people wandering through their lives questioning, why are they here? What is their purpose in life? I witness this at every seminar and business conference I attend. The No. 1 issue people share they are struggling with is having no purpose for what they do. People are starving for something greater than themselves. They are starving for a purpose in their lives. They are starving for a Big Why.
So that is WHY the book exists—to help people figure out their Big Why. This book walks you through how to go about Discovering Why you are on this planet, why you should uncover this truth and the benefits of doing so. Through the book, I am able to get this information into as many hands as possible as fast as possible so that others can start living the kind of life they may not have thought was possible. In short, I am trying to change the world, one inspired person at a time.
