What Do You Want?

It’s a question that has been asked again and again by humans since we became conscious of ourselves, our environment and the fact that we had the power to create. So, what do you want?

When we ask this question within the context of creating an event, it becomes somewhat easier than asking the big question of life itself. Still, if you are asking this question about an event you are going to produce or present, you need to consider it within the context of your life and goals. If you are not clear about your life goals, this might be a good time to consider them because big picture clarity will invariably lead to clarity in this more focused aspect of your life.

What you want at this moment is fairly simple to discover. All you have to do is look at what you have. Whether you acknowledge it or not, what you have is what you wanted. Perhaps that has recently changed, and you are now pursuing new opportunities in the form of sharing wisdom and experience through live events, but that will not manifest for a while. For right now what you want is what you have. Otherwise you would not have this.

When you change your thinking and action, you will have different things and perhaps a life that looks very different from what you have today. We all create our reality through our thoughts and actions, so what we have is the result of what we have been thinking and doing.

The real question to ask is what do you want in the future? Once you are clear about that, you can begin to lay the foundation for that future. And if that desire is to create successful seminars, workshops, trainings or other live events, you can use the steps provided throughout this site to do just that. First, however, be very clear about the parameters of that desire. You don’t want to be pursuing a dream for months or years only to finally have it manifest and then realize that you really want something slightly or very different.

For example, I once worked with a client who was certain that she wanted to move beyond working as a physician to helping large groups of people learn to live healthier lives thereby avoiding trips to the doctor to handle chronic conditions. We took that premise all the way to the creation of a seminar for her with workbook, schedule and plans to expand when she suddenly realized that her dream was not to lead those seminars but to create them for others to lead.

At that point, it was too late to back out of future commitments, so she presented the workshops, and we were able to leverage their success so that we could market them to other presenters as well as set up a network to make them available nationally. Fortunately, her true desire was not that far from what we had created, and we were able to make the transition without too much difficulty. However, had she not had the resources and willingness to make that shift, she would have wasted a great deal of time, energy and money in an unfulfilling endeavor.

Accordingly, I will warn you again and again to keep asking yourself the question, what do I want in the future? Course correction is possible, but the earlier in the process it occurs the easier and less costly it becomes.