A colleague and I were on the phone recently and he asked me one simple question: “What does Yasmin want?” In that moment, my mind went blank. I didn’t even know what to say. Its not that I didn’t know what I wanted but I didn’t know what to say I wanted. Huh? Exactly. If you don’t know how to answer that simple question, then you don’t know what you want! That’s what I discovered. After we ended our discussion, I thought long and hard about what I wanted. I put a list together and wrote down the things that I wanted. I didn’t concern myself with what OTHER PEOPLE think I should have, I concerned myself only with what I wanted. Now that I’m comfortable with my list, I can go about 2010 claiming the things that I really want in my life and going on from there.

Do you know what you want? Here are some simple tips to finding out what you want.

1. Focus on what you like. What brings you joy?
2. Focus on things that you like to do. What did you enjoy before kids, family, financial issues?
3. Focus on the dreams that you may have given up long ago.
4. Focus on the things that people told you were impossible. Sometimes inside an impossibility is what you really want.
5. Focus on the things and circumstances that would improve the quality of your life.

Good luck with Knowing What You Want but like they say, “Knowing is Half The Battle!”