What do I want?

The most important question any woman of any age can answer for herself (and only she can answer it) is — What do I want?

Not what does the world want. Not what does my spouse/partner want. Not what do my children want. Not what my boss wants.

What do I want?

Most women forget what the flight attendant says every time you get on the plane. If the oxygen mask drops from the sky and you are traveling with a small child put the oxygen mask over your own face first- it is only when you protect yourself that you can protect others.

I think it is not only about protection but one step further than that — it is about each of us, our goals, desires and dreams. It is best practice to intentionally think about what each of us wants.

Discerning Desire in a Rapidly Changing World

It is very difficult to know what we want in a world that is rapidly changing. As Susan Boseck of The Legacy Project explores, our world has changed more in the last 100 years than in the previous thousand. We split the atom, probed the psyche, invented plastic, perfected airplanes and robots, put televisions and computers in most homes around the globes, put a mobile phone in the hands of most. We have changed the way we interact, travel, communicate, learn, work organize our communities, create and distribute resources and affect our planet. In so doing we have changed our relationship with time. It is our own individual responsibility to figure out what that means for each of us in our own individual (and collective) lives.

I would love to hear from you all — What do you want?