Getting what you want

Having kids made the following excerpt from a book standout to me. More than that, wanting a full and exciting life where I don't miss out on anything has always been something I've aimed for. I'm not complaining about what I have, where I've been, or what I'm doing, FAR FROM IT! It is just Shauna Niequist in the book Bittersweet summed it all up. Getting what you want is easy ... just costly! Read on for an excerpt from the book.



I love the illusion of being able to do it all, and I'm fascinated with people who seem to do that, who have challenging careers and beautiful homes and vibrant minds and well-tended abs. Throw in polite children and a garden, and I'm coming over for lessons.


Out to lunch one day with my friend Denise, I asked her about it. Denise is a mother of four, and a grandmother, and she works and writes and travels and cooks, and ... she seems settled in some fundamental way... And this is what Denise told me: she said it's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order
to do the things you really care about. 


Her words from that day have been rattling around inside me for years now... She was right. Deciding what I wanted wasn't that hard. But deciding what I'm willing to give up for those things is like
yoga for your superego, stretching and pushing and ultimately healing that nasty little person inside of you who exists only for what people think.