Do What You Want

Yesterday, I took a day off to prioritize things in my life. I wanted to look at where I am compared to what I want in life. The interesting thing was that I am only short of a couple of things. I am pretty much where I want to be. I want to do the things I want to do. My suggestion to you is to do what you want.

Woohoo! I Can Do Anything!

Okay, look, you can’t rob a bank and run down the street naked. Well, you can’t rob a bank. Let me know where you are going to do the other and I’ll be there to watch what happens!

What I mean is that you should live life according to what you want out of it. You should do the things you want and live how you want. If you don’t, at least to some degree, your life will be unhappy at best.

Just to give you a real simple example, I wrote that I wanted to do my yoga practice because I wanted to, not because I felt I had to. When I read back over that, I realized that the only difference was attitude, mind change. I could do what I wanted or I could do it because I felt I had to. It was just attitude. Do what you want can mean nothing more than the right attitude.

How Do I know What I Want?

I suggest you take time like I did and just write down on a piece of paper what it is you want from life. Be as detailed as you possibly can.

Write down what your perfect day looks like. Imagine waking up and what you will wear, what you will eat and what happens as the day progresses. Again, get detailed. The better you can see it, the better you can understand it.

Read back over what you have written, not just then, but over the next couple of days. This will help it to really sink in.

Do this as a monthly habit, or how ever often you feel you need to. Don’t let it go too long! For one thing, it is easy to forget as you get caught up in life. Also, things change! What you want today may not be the same as what you want next month. You may achieve something and need to look forward to something new.

What If What I Want Doesn’t Match With Someone Else?

This is something you will have to decide. If your life is miserable because a relationship is not right, then you have two basic choices. You either change what you want or you change the relationship.

This may sound selfish, but can you live your whole life in a relationship that is unhappy? My grandmother lived in a relationship with a man who was one of the most miserable human beings to ever draw breath. She was not strong enough to leave him even when he molested his own daughters and beat his wife. Thank God he died fairly young!

Leaving him would not have been selfish; it would have saved her daughters and herself.

We all choose the life we life to a great extent. We may not control the circumstances, but we do control our thoughts and actions in relation to them. What do you choose? I say, do what you want!

Here’s to You!

P.S. Here are a couple of excellent book on getting what you want!
Get What You Want!: Workbook to Reactivate Your Passion for Life, Find Your Purpose and Achieve Your Dreams

How to Get What You Want