What Is It You Truly Need?

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‘Do you have everything you need right now? What about your wants? Few of us have everything we want, and at times our wants can seem positively all-consuming. Our sensibilities become confused and overstimulated by a mass media that glorifies beautiful people and expensive objects. It’s easy to lose clarity about what it is we need to live authentically. Most of us are hungering for something more in our lives. But do you really think the answer can be found in a glossy magazine or on the movie screen?

If you are to live happy, creative, and fulfilled lives, it is crucial to distinguish between our wants and our needs. Unfortunately, many women blur the distinction and then wonder why they feel so diminished. Make peace with the knowledge that you can’t have everything you want. Why? Because it’s more important for us to get everything we need. Like infants, we feel contentment when our essentials are met.

Be courageous. As yourself: what is it I truly need to make me happy? The deeply personal answers to this vital question will be different for each of us. Trust the loving wisdom of your heart. It is only after we acknowledge our inner needs that we can harness the creative energy necessary to manifest them in our lives. “It is inevitable when one has a great need of something, one finds it,” Gertrude Stein reminds us. “What you need you attract like a lover.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

This speaks volumes to me.

This passage gives even stronger meaning to the very statement my dear childhood friend Tiffany, who is also a stay at home mommy to many little ones, always reminds me of, “The greatest inventions come from necessity.” We are all just trying to get through every single day.

Basics, my friend.

In order to get through each day I need these basics:
Structure
Routine
Motivation
Guidance
Affection
Coffee (kidding- can I have one tangible item?)
Simplicity (still learning , as I can effortlessly make the
easiest task so very difficult)

When these things are missing, I quickly lose sight of my path.

The laundry piles up.

The housework overpowers me.

The meal plans are overlooked and dinner becomes carry out.

The children can conquer me. (Oh, please do not tell them I said that.)

The after school schedule does not stick.

Homework does not get done.

You get the idea, right?

Do you know what you need- off the top of your head? What are your thoughts?

‘In my life’s chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.’ – Hannah Senesh