Decide What You Want

Principle #3 - Decide What You Want

"One of the main reasons why most people don't get what they want is they haven't decided what they want. They haven't defined their desires in clear and compelling detail.

Inside everyone of us is that tiny seed of the "you" that you were meant to become. Unfortunately, you may have buried this seed in response to your parents, teachers, coaches, and other adult role models as you were growing up.

After many years of these kinds of sanctions, most of us eventually lost touch with the needs of our bodies and the desires of our hearts and somehow got stuck trying to figure out what other people want us to do.

In the name of being sensible, we end up becoming numb to our own desires."

~ Jack Canfield

For those of you who are in the midst of making your new year resolutions for 2013, it's time to reclaim yourself and your true desires. Stop settling for less than what you want.

"If you don't like the color of the notebook you have, trade with someone else and get the one you want. You deserve to have everything in your life exactly the way you want it."

For those of you who are not sure what you truly want in life, start with making 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. A sort of bucket list.

Here's a story of Monty Roberts, the author of "The Man Who Listens to Horses", to get you inspired:

When Monty was in high school, his teacher gave the class the assignment to write about what they wanted to do when they grow up. Monty wrote that he wanted to own his own 200-acre ranch and raise Thoroughbred racehorces. His teacher gave him an F and explained that the grade reflected that he deemed his dream unrealistic. No boy who was living in a camper on the back of a pickup truck would ever amass enough money to buy a ranch, purchase breeding stock, and pay the necessary salaries for ranch hands. When he offered Monty the chance of rewriting his paper for a higher grade, Monty told him, "You keep the 'F'; I'm keeping my dream."

Today Monty's 154-acre Flag Is Up Farms in Solvang, California, raises Thoroughbred horses and trains hundreds of horse trainers in a more humane way to "join up" with and train horses.

Enjoy making your new year resolutions!

Happy New Year, my dear friends!