What Do You Want? FeMBA Highlights

“What do you want?”

This was the first question posed at the 3-day program called FeMBA (a mini-MBA for women entrepreneurs) I attended with Seth Godin at the beginning of last month. I was stumped. He was asking it in the context of my business, but I cannot address that question one-dimensionally. Like most working women I know, my whole life is intertwined in who I am and what I do. I want a career. I want to have an impact. I want to accomplish something significant. I want to be independent. I want to love and be loved. I want to be there for my children when they are sick/need cupcakes/want to be read to. I want to be a role model for my daughter. I want to be my son’s best friend. I want to work hard with amazing people. I want to go on vacation with my husband. I want to make lots of money. I want to do yoga. I want to connect amazing people. I want a lot. So to ask me that question…to ask how I might create a business that can enable all my dreams and desires is difficult and scary – I am having a hard time wrapping my head around a job that will enable all of it. But I am not one to avoid the scary path. The real question for me is what do I want to do first? And then next? And then have faith that the how will follow.  And I do.

So first up:  I want to connect all of you to each other.  You with me?

Thank you, Seth, for the gift of you, your questions, your ideas, and for connecting me with my new posse of FeMBA Phenoms.

FYI – for highlights of the FeMBA program, go here.

Comments

  1. says

    What do you want is such a loaded question, isn’t it? World peace? To save the rain forests? To stop animal cruelty? A new pair of killer Manolos? Sigh….

    But maybe that’s the point! Maybe it’s like one of those “gut tests” where the first things that come to mind in response to that question are really and truly the things we want in this life. And if for some reason none of your answers come up business-related….well, then, maybe that’s a telling sign.

    I like your tip of answering the question first and then figuring out HOW later. Make it much easier to let go and dream big!

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