\u201cTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?\u201d – Mary Oliver, poet<\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you want that you already have, Megan?<\/em> I\u2019ve been mulling over this self-imposed question for weeks.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m in a season of reflection. As a rule, I\u2019ve always been a reflective sort of girl, but this go-around I\u2019m digging deeper. Asking myself tougher questions. Dusting off some old boxes of the heart and taking a peek inside so see what I had hidden away. I\u2019m on my hands and knees, scrubbing clean the tiles of the ideals and hopes I have let diminish in beauty over time.<\/p>\n

Its dirty work, I\u2019m not gonna lie. And it takes seemingly for-evvvvver.<\/p>\n

But, that question might just be revolutionizing my life.<\/p>\n

What do I want?<\/p>\n

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• In my relationships with my kids, my husband, my friends?<\/li>\n
• From my daily routine? My career?<\/li>\n
• For my future?<\/li>\n
• My goals to achieve?<\/li>\n
• My body to look like? Feel like? Move like?<\/li>\n
• My spiritual life to be?<\/li>\n
• My reputation to reflect?<\/li>\n
• My influence to impact?<\/li>\n
• My legacy to be?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Answer them truthfully and the deepest desires of your heart emerge. In the answers is where I\u2019ve found the most hard-hitting truth of all.\u00a0 That I\u2019m often complaining about and wishing for things that are already right here with me.\u00a0 Every single day.<\/p>\n

  Of course I have \u2018wants\u2019. Plenty of them. I am human, after all. Stuff that I long for, need, hope for and strive towards that I don\u2019t already have. And having those keeps me curious. \u00a0Because what is life if we have it all, all right now? \u00a0Give me some mystery and adventure, I say!<\/p>\n

  Right now, I desire more from life than I ever did. I\u2019m paying closer attention to my fantasies (tsk, tsk\u2026mind outta the gutter), because in them I\u2019m finding the wonder and playfulness and passion of a life that is possible. I am believing in seemingly insurmountable things more than ever too. Because when I let myself dream (and believe) the impossible, there is where I find my tipping point for motivation. And that is power. Motivation keeps us going through some pretty tough stuff. Motivation is the manifestation of someone who is fully alive.<\/p>\n

  What do you want that you already have? List it. Speak it. Stop complaining and start embracing.<\/p>\n

  What do you want that you don\u2019t have but yearn for, hope for, need to be fully alive? Chase those with fervor and tenacity. Destiny is possible but not probable. I\u2019ll always error on the side of creating my own.<\/p>\n

  So.<\/p>\n

  What do you<\/em> want?<\/p>\n

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  Megan Smith is the founder of CAKE&WHISKEY. Her work and ramblings can be found here:<\/em><\/p>\n

  meganpsmith.com<\/a> and homemaking101.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

  photo credit: Sarah Jane Sanders.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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