Why do you live the life you live? Discovering your “why” can help you connect with your passion and purpose. I discuss how to do that with Dr. Gary Sanchez.
Gary is not only a dentist, but he is also an entrepreneur, an inventor, a speaker, an author and the creator and founder of the WHY Institute. He created a tool that in just eight minutes can help you discover not only your “why” but your “how” and “what” and create your personal message for you. This tool has been used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
When Gary got out of dental school the advice from the gurus at that time was “build a great product and people will come”. That’s what Gary did. He spent 20 years reaching the highest levels you can go to in dentistry, building a great team, buying all the technology, and he still blended in with everybody else.
Discover Your “Why”
Gary went out and hired a coach, John Assaraf. Through him Gary learned how to market his practice online. The only problem was, he didn’t know what to say to separate himself from everyone else that did what he did. Then Gary saw an interview with Simon Sinek and realized he knew his “what” but he didn’t know his “why”. Gary called Simon Sinek and spent eight months with him to discover his “why”. That’s when his life started to make sense to him.
When his practice took off Gary started getting calls from other dentists asking Gary to help them do what he did. He went on to find a better way to help people figure out their “why”. He started to recognize patterns, trends and similarities and realized that there are only nine different “whys”. All of us have all of them, but one of them is more dominant than the rest and that’s the one that becomes your “why”.
In this episode we discuss:
- Questions to ask yourself to discover your “why”.
- Where your “why” is housed in your brain and why it’s important to understand that.
- How to use your “why” in your marketing and branding.
- How to recognize success patterns in your life.
- A deeper dive into the nine different “whys”
- Patterns in your life to recognize that will lead you to your “why”.
- The importance of discovering your “how” and your “what”.
- How to clearly articulate to the world who you are.
- The importance of shared beliefs.
- How to connect to your passion and purpose.
…and more golden nuggets of advice!
You can get my book here: “Idea Climbing: How to Create a Support System for Your Next Big Idea”
About the Guest
Dr. Gary Sanchez is an International speaker, author, dentist, and inventor. He is best known as “Dr. WHY” for discovering the 9 WHYs, developing the WHY Discovery Tool, the WHY.os Discovery(WHY Operating System), as the Founder and CEO of the WHY Institute.
Many people talk about the power of knowing your WHY, but Dr. Sanchez took it from concept to reality to application when he created the world’s first WHY Discovery tool to help people accurately and quickly discover their WHY in under 5 minutes.
In 2021, WHY Institute launched the WHY.os Discovery which discovers your WHY, HOW, and WHAT and creates your personal brand message for you in under 10 minutes.
From a successful dentist to now helping hundreds of thousands discover their WHY.os, Dr. Sanchez’s journey shows the impact of understanding and living your WHY.os. He is now on a mission to help 1 Billion people unleash their true self by discovering their WHY.os.
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