"I used to know what I wanted. Somewhere along the way I lost it."
"I am successful by most measures and I still feel like something is missing — I just cannot name what it is."
"I keep waiting to feel ready. To feel clear. To feel like myself again. It has been a long time."
"My life looks good from the outside. From the inside it feels like I am living someone else's version of it."
"I know there is more. I just cannot seem to find my way back to it."
You are not ungrateful. You are not asking for too much. You are not someone who just needs to appreciate what she has.
You are a woman who has spent so long making decisions from obligation, expectation, and what looks right to everyone else — that somewhere along the way you stopped being able to hear what you actually want.
Not because the desire is gone. Because you stopped trusting it.
After 12 years of working with ambitious women, I have seen this pattern more times than I can count. The most capable, intelligent, driven women — completely disconnected from their own desires. Not because they do not care. Because somewhere along the way they learned it was safer not to want too much.
This challenge is about unlearning that. In five days.
I started my business in 2014 from my kitchen table after experiencing a quarter-life crisis an feeling stuck for years.
You feel the gap between the life you are living and the life you know is possible — but you cannot quite name what is missing.
You are successful, capable, and quietly exhausted by the distance between who you are showing up as and who you actually are.
You want a proven method for reconnecting with what you actually want — and the courage to go after it.
You have been waiting to feel clear, ready, or certain before you make a move — and the waiting has gone on long enough.
Day 1 — Reconnect with what you actually want, underneath everything you think you should want.
Day 2 — Get clear on the real desire — the one you have been talking yourself out of, that keeps coming back anyway.
Day 3 — Identify what has actually been in the way. Not what you think it is. What it actually is.
Day 4 — Take one aligned action. The move that signals to yourself and the world that you are done waiting.
Day 5 — Lock it in as a way of living, not a one-time insight you forget by next week.
I'll be real
Most personal development teaches you to fix yourself before you start living.
Get your mindset right. Clear your blocks. Become the person who deserves the life. Then go after it.
This is different.
The Life by Desire Method™ starts with what you already want — and uses that desire as the compass. Not as the reward for doing the work. As the method itself.
That is the shift that changes everything. And it takes five days to show you why.
Robyn Hume,
Registered Dietitian
I am trusting myself more, feeling more assured, confident and resilient.
I always struggled with the cliché vision board or desire exercises (and believed I didn’t know what I truly desired)
Amanda Bond,
Marketer
LISA MICHAUD,
REAL ESTATE
She helped me remove many blocks and make powerful mindset shifts around money, and confidence
I got to first get a big look at my desires and allowed myself to dream big ...and now believe it can happen! That is huge for me (especially in a short amount of time).'
Stephanie mauhler,
coach
WONDERING IF IT WORKS?
@EMILYWILLIAMS
MEET YOUR COACH
I am Emily Williams — life strategist, author, and founder of I Heart My Life.
I know what it feels like to stand at the edge of the life you actually want and not be able to make yourself leap. I have been there more than once — not just at 22, when I turned my car around on the way to grad school and moved to London alone. But later too. When the life I had built did not feel like mine anymore. When I had to come back to my own method and remember that desire is not the reward. It is the road.
Over 12 years I have helped thousands of women worldwide stop waiting and start living the life they actually want. Not a watered-down version or the responsible choice. The real thing.
This challenge is not about adding more to your life. It is about finding your way back to yourself.
That is where everything else begins.
The exact template I use with clients to get clear on what they actually want.
77 simple ways to start living at your next level today.
A guided audio to connect you with the woman you are already becoming.
It is time to stop waiting for the right moment, the right version of yourself, the right circumstances.
The life you keep picturing is not waiting for you to be ready. It is waiting for you to begin.
Finally know what you actually want
See clearly what's been in the way
Take one action that changes everything
Have a method you'll use for life