{"id":209,"date":"2015-03-23T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-03-23T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:44:44","slug":"what-do-you-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/what-do-you-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you desire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you desire? \u00a0What makes you itch? \u00a0What sort of situation would you like?….What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?”<\/p>\n

– Alan Watts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Galapagos\"<\/a>
Preparing for sunset on the roof-top deck at Casa Opuntia\u00a0on\u00a0Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There is an existential angst that plagues our generation. \u00a0I was speaking to a friend today and he told me there is scientific evidence that this phenomenon takes hold of you most critically at the age of 43. \u00a0I just turned 44. \u00a0You start to wonder what you\u00a0really want out of life and actually, if you do know, question whether there is\u00a0anything you can do about it anyway. \u00a0We are the “sandwich generation”\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0ageing parents on one hand and growing kids on the other \u2013 how do\u00a0you manage\u00a0life let alone reap all that it may have to offer you?\u00a0 Is time\u00a0running out?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you a funny story. We were living in London in 2008\/2009 during the financial crisis and watching everything melt down around us and we\u00a0sat down to discuss\u00a0what we should do if things really got ugly, I\u2019m talking modern day apocalypse – bank runs, chaos in the streets, Europe regressing\u00a0back to feudal times, the whole worst case scenario. We decided the best course of action\u00a0would be to abandon all our belongings, get on a ship if necessary, make our way to\u00a0the family\u00a0cabin in the Rockies\u00a0and hang out for a few years \u2013 grow our own vegetables, spend time with the kids and let things pass over.<\/p>\n

And then we started thinking a bit more and, as you do,\u00a0turned our attention to what we\u00a0would do if we won the lottery? Well we decided the best\u00a0course of action\u00a0would be to\u00a0abandon all our belongings, get on a ship if necessary, make our way to\u00a0the family\u00a0cabin in the Rockies and hang out for a few years \u2013 grow our own vegetables, spend time with the kids and let things pass over. \u00a0Hmmm….<\/p>\n

How is this possible? \u00a0The worst case scenario and the best case scenario end up the same but with all the power in the world to choose that path we don\u2019t act. We feel trapped by indecision and what we should do constrains us from what we must do to live a life of fulfillment. It\u2019s really interesting, no?<\/p>\n

As planners we owe it to clients\u00a0to help them explore their goals as fully as possible. \u00a0When you passionately believe your plan is tied to meaningful goals then you will see it through. \u00a0The focus has to be the goals, otherwise there is no point. \u00a0You don’t need a catastrophe\u00a0or lottery win to act – you just need a good honest discussion about what you desire in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you desire? \u00a0What makes you itch? \u00a0What sort of situation would you like?….What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?” – Alan Watts   There is an existential angst that plagues our generation. \u00a0I was speaking to a friend today and he […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaltenadvisors.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}