Becoming You with Suzy Welch Forget Your “Why.” There Are Three Better Questions To Unlock Your Life.
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Feb 24, 2026 Three fresh questions to get unstuck replace the usual search for purpose. Listeners hear prompts that expose avoided risks, hidden longings, and what abundance would reveal. A playful prompt even asks you to imagine what your dog would want for your wellbeing. Practical, probing, and designed to kickstart forward motion.
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Find Your Why Not
- Ask not just your why but your why not to reveal what's stopping you from taking risks.
- Suzy Welch and Sylvia Winter frame barriers as 'gravity' (economic security, expectations, expedience, events) that hide the life you secretly wanted.
Name The Four Horsemen Blocking You
- Identify which of the four horsemen (economic security, expectations, expedience, events) is blocking your choices.
- Write down your secret crush career and the specific why not that stopped you to expose tradeoffs you've accepted.
Write Down Your Blockers And Flight Path
- Confront your why not by writing it down and mapping the flight path it blocks.
- Ask what support would let you break free and make a practical plan to reduce that specific barrier.