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I'm Tanya Wilmoth. If you could ask for one thing, what would it be?

Ellen Nimo is a clinical psychologist in the UK and she wrote an article about this for the Wellington Post and she talked about six ways that people answer this question during a therapy session.

What is the thing you most want? And she goes through each item and she points out either how you can kind of meet that desire or how it can't even be met the way the person imagines or

fantasizes. So, first of all, people say they want to be happy and

NIMMO says this desire is way too big.

She says it's better to define one thing that makes you happy and just do more of

that. Number two people say they want a quiet, calm mind.

And Nimmo says peace of mind is actually a worthy goal. She says it's hard to get anything done when your mind is just full of chaotic thoughts.

But she also points out that she sees this desire more than ever before

and she's

uncertain right now, at least for the clients that she's talking to.

Number three, more excitement.

So Nimos suggests that if you want a life that's more exciting,

you start with just a prickle of excitement by doing

one thing that you've never done before, just breaking up your routine.

She says that will move you closer to a life of excitement.

Number four, it's more me time. Nimmo says people are saying and

they're feeling like they don't have enough time for themselves and they're

talking about feelings of exhaustion and then resent resentment. But she actually says that people who do have

more time or who get more time don't know what to do with it and then they have a

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