The most difficult question ever

# Chapter 89

“Until you decide what you want, you won't be able to consciously shape your environments.“ Dr Hardy

The number one most difficult question for every client to answer, for every person to answer is, “what do you want?” This is the thorniest question ever, because of FOMO for lots of people, and because of complexities for other people.

I am an other people. Its the complexities for me. For instance, I want to stop traveling. Its killing my body and wrecking my sleep, poisoning me with radiation, and yet . . . I love being in new places and having new experiences. See? Its complex, in that the TWO wants depend on one another, and so I can’t synthesize this down to a single want. FOMO people just don’t want to miss out on anything ever, so getting them to state or decide their want, is like . . . good luck.

So tell me, “what do you want” and “are you sure?” Yes you can sit there for the next 10 hours contemplating those two questions. And once you have it decided what you want, you can start shaping your environment to achieve it. You can now decide what story you want to tell with your life. You can decide who will be in your story and who will not be in your story. And most critical of all, we get to decide who we will be in the story!

Thus in one sense I am the son of a chicken farmer, and a damn good chicken farmer at that! And at the same time I am the president and CEO of an International NGO think-tank. Most importantly, I don’t have to stop there!