What Do You Want To Do Now?

The most important question that most of us never ask.

What do you want to do now?

Think about that question for a second. What’s the first thing that pops into your head? If the answer is; read this article, I’d be very surprised, yet that’s what you’re doing. I’m willing to bet this isn’t the first time that the thing you want to do and the thing you’re doing don’t align. Our lives are almost entirely filled with things we don’t particularly want to be doing, and part of the reason is that we fail to ask this simple question.

Of course, I’m not suggesting that you never read anything. Or even that you never do anything which isn’t top of the list of things you’d like to be doing at that moment. If none of us ever did anything that wasn’t in our top three choices, the only things we’d ever do would be; have sex, eat icecream, and jump into a swimming pool full of money a la Scrooge McDuck. Life is filled with things we don’t really want to do, and sadly, they need to get done.

Still, this doesn’t and shouldn’t mean that there’s no point in asking the question. In fact, sometimes asking the question enables you to do something that you don’t really want to do. For instance, maybe there’s a book that you really don’t want to read. Maybe it’s long and difficult and boring, but maybe…