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How to Know & Get What You Really Want

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By Michelle Starkey
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What do you really want out of life?
What do you really want out of life?

Learn how to discover what you really, really want out of life with these simple easy steps!

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Desire
  • Focus
  • Action
  1. Step 1
    You want to be happy, right?
     
    You want to be happy, right?

    First, visualize what you would like your life to be like. If you were living the life of your dreams, what would that look like? How would it feel? Get into the details too, because this intensifies your desire. Is it total freedom, unlimited happiness, inner peace? What would create these states?

  2. Step 2
    You know what you DON'T want.
     
    You know what you DON'T want.

    Next, let go of what you don't want. This should be easy because you know what that is: loneliness, sadness, grief, pain... You know exactly what you don't want so release it. This creates room to allow the things you desire to begin arriving in leaps and bounds!

  3. Step 3
    Act as though you already have what you want!
     
    Act as though you already have what you want!

    Once you have a clear vision and the desire to manifest it, begin to focus on the dream. Stay in its' energy, feel it and allow it to arrive. You don't need to know all the details: the hows, wheres, and whens. You just need to know what it is!

  4. Step 4
    Life is but a dream!
     
    Life is but a dream!

    Now, take action and the necessary steps to create that dream. Stay focused on your desire, let go of the past or whatever it is that's 'holding you back.' Do what you need to do to get there one step at a time. Do something that will bring you closer every day. Stay focused and one day you will wake up and ask someone to 'pinch you' because you will be living the life of your dreams!

Tips & Warnings
  • "Everything we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~Edgar Allen Poe
  • "Dreams are necessary to life." ~Anais Nin
  • "Nothing happens unless first we dream." ~Carl Sandburg

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LisaBud said

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on 4/13/2009 Uplifting article! Finding and knowing what you want is a worthwhile but sometimes painful process, as we tend to 'fool' ourselves and make bargains when our fears hold us back. But having a dream and the courage to pursue it is also what helps us face every morning with hope and energy.

guitarguy said

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on 3/11/2009 It's my experience that people never really know what they want. When you get what you want, you just move on to want something else. Aside from abandoning the idea of wanting, no one will ever be without want. Anyway, good article. I wanted to know what I want. :)

ginafur said

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on 2/7/2009 This is such a cute article that teaches a lesson. Those kids are so cute in the pictures. Thanks for sharing tips for getting what you want. 5*

jseven said

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on 1/30/2009 Right Michelle, without a vision, people perish. 5*

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on 1/29/2009 Think what you need into reality.

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