SBU Colleges of Medicine & Nursing Guidance Center

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Discover your deepest reasons and intentions for valuing your life's choices.

Sometimes finding your "why" can be as simple as reconnecting with your values and reframing your everyday activities in relation to those values. Perhaps you're dragging yourself through your last semester of grad school, but when you remind yourself of the end goal--maybe a career path that is personally meaningful or the achievement of significant expertise in your field--those late nights of studying become less of a burden and more of a privilege.

And sometimes finding your "why" means far more disruption, like leaving a dead-end relationship or choosing to move to a different country. Whatever it means to you, find it. Because walking your why is a surefire way to cut through the messy and confusing meanderings of life to connect with who you really ARE.