What do I want? There lays the million dollar question. Words that come to mind are happiness, security and peace. But I know I need to be more specific. What would make me happy? What would make me feel secure? What would bring me peace? Those are the questions I need to answer.
An exercise provided with this chapter is to make a list of "30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30 things you want to be before you die". My first instinct was to make a list of the luxuries most of us dream of..... a new BMW Convertible, my dream house, a bank account with a hefty balance (the type that doesn't have a - (minus) in front of it), various locations in the world I want to travel to such as Paris, Greece, Italy... all the stuff we typically like to dream of having or doing. What I foud difficult however, is coming up with 30 things in each category. What I found the most difficult was finding things in the BE category. What do I want to BE? I think this question really gets us to the place of being able to define Success as we each think it to be. Who do I need to BE in order to be successful?
I have a project management book that I found in a Wal Mart store somewhere and I have decided to use that as my goals book. A place to outline and track my goals and progress towards achieving those goals. My first step was to attempt to create the list of 90 things I want to do, have or be. This, I can see, is a work in progress as I really need to think about this. I need to approach it from the aspect of if time and money were not an issue standpoint. I need to allow myself to dream big dreams as Canfield encourages us to do in this chapter. I also need to get myself to a place where I "stop settling for less than I want" as instructed in this weeks reading.
I have a lot to ponder.........
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