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This weekend, we hosted 30+ people at a retreat in Upstate New York.
100+ acres.
Wild horses.
A small lake.
Real conversation.
At the NY immersion, one of the most powerful questions we sat with this weekend:
What do you want in your life?
Simple question.
Brutal question.
Because most high-achievers are trained to answer a different one.
What should I want?
What gets rewarded?
What looks impressive from the outside?
Those questions lead to a life that looks great on paper but still doesn't feel like home in your body.
I know that one well.
I spent years chasing things I thought would finally make me feel enough.
And there's this weird moment when the realization kicks in:
Wait…
Why do I still feel like I'm running?
That's why this question matters.
What do you want?
The real answer. Not the polished one.
The one underneath the noise. Not the one that makes you sound ambitious, impressive, or put together.
You start to notice which goals are yours and which ones were inherited.
You start to feel where you're alive and where you're just performing.
You start to realize achievement is a beautiful thing, but it makes a terrible master.
This is why I love this work.
We're not just helping people become better at sales.
We're helping people come back into relationship with themselves.
And the funny thing is, when people get clearer on what they truly want, they usually become better at the work too.
That is the sacred third for me.
Ambition and aliveness. Craft and soul.
Winning in the world while staying connected to the person doing the winning.
The question for you to sit with this week:
What do you actually want? Honestly and actually.
And if the answer scares you a little, beautiful.
That probably means you're close.
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2. Quote to fuel your Alluviance:
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." — Howard Thurman