Do you ask for what you want? Kids do it well. By the time we’re adults, we learned to hold back on asking for what we really want. We’re taught that it’s ‘against the rules’ or rude to confront authority; we learn to fear that we won’t get what we want even if we ask. After a while of sitting back, we forget to ask ourselves about what we want – until the part of us that knows … goes numb.
Kids have an innocent sense of entitlement and can freely access what they want in the moment. Unbridled by fear of rejection or sense of boundaries, kids check-in with their wants in real-time, so much so that they often can’t sit still.
It took me a while to figure out what I wanted in the big picture of life. It started with admitting that I wanted to know. I realized that if I knew, I might actually have to do something about it – and that was scary. Once I overcame the fear, I observed from my daughter that kids just know and ask for or do what they want. So, before tackling the big project of life purpose, I started small by asking for what I wanted here and now. By practicing to attune with what I wanted in the present - like exercise of underused muscles - I am able to access, formulate and ask for what I want … from life.
Ask for what you want and you just might get it.
Passion rules!
Barry Kaplan
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