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Three-year-old Cousins Blake and Nicole took advantage of a beautiful Castro Valley Saturday to host their first business venture, a lemonade stand, and raised more than

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What Do You Really Want?

By Kevin Koo

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Recently, I wrote about clarity. I shared how my cataracts were affecting my vision, and I didn’t even know it. I believe there are situations where we think we are seeing clearly when we’re actually not. That’s why there is so much confusion about what we’re supposed to do. What’s the right diet and workout for me? Do I invest in crypto? What car do I drive? What state should I live in? How do you know what direction to take?

I feel lame quoting the Spice Girls, but it seems appropriate. “Tell me what you want, what you really really want.” When I add the two “reallys” and I think and feel what I really really want, my perspective starts to the things that matter to you (aka what do you really really want?).

If you came into my house and room, you would find a lot of things related to food. During our kitchen renovations, we spent a lot of money on the appliances we wanted to use. Why? Because we wanted to host parties, especially for the family during the holidays. I really really enjoy cooking, so I got the different cooking gear, cookbooks, knives, etc. to experiment and learn so that I can do all the things. How well I execute is another question…

You see, typically we think about what we want on a surface level. Yes, I would like 1 million dollars, but why? It’s not really the money I want, but it’s about the freedom that the money would create. We want six-pack abs or a bikini body to be noticed by others, meaning we want attention, not the actual body shape. We want nice, fancy vacations because we want memorable experiences. We want to own a business because it can bring us more freedom and flexibility than our current job.

The main point to all of this is, that if you sit with this long enough, you’ll begin to know what it is that you really really

shift. Around the age of 10, I stopped caring about toys. My mom had just bought me a Nerf gun for my birthday, and I was bored of it after two weeks. After that, I realized I liked toys but didn’t really love them, so I decided not to buy any more toys. I do play video games though. That seems like a young age to come to that conclusion, and you would never guess based on the amount of stuff in my house. However, the lesson here was, to spend time and money on

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