I’ve just published a guest post at Dumb Little Man called “How To Separate ‘Real’ Wants From ‘Should’ Wants.”  The article is about learning to set goals based on what moves us on a deep, physical level, rather than what it sounds rational to want, or what our cultural influences say we should be chasing.  [...]

Many people, including people who come to me for coaching, tell me they “don’t know what they want” in life.  Much of the time, however, this isn’t really true.  They’ve just fallen into the habit of saying they don’t know because they don’t feel safe telling people in their lives what they want.  They worry [...]