Looking Under the Surface of "Want"

So in this little journey of mine I have decided to look for a help in various forms. I'm a shy one at first, so I am starting with a book for young adults looking to find/choose the perfect career. No harm, right? Since I started this blog to document the steps I am taking towards my own wildest dreams, I will share the highlights from the various insights I gain from this book and the exercises it contains.
Below I have copied in one part of an exercise I worked on tonight. I think the questions this book is asking are very well put and are pulling some interesting ideas out of that dormant side of me. This inquiry exercise started by asking for a list of motivations and wants. Then the author flipped his approach and said to look at the motivations for the wants, and to see beyond wanting into what is possible. I found my personal reflection slightly surprising, actually - and enjoyed what I wrote below the most. (A singing Martha?!?! hahahaha. I love when I get into free flowing ideas.)


What’s Possible?

"Take a moment and imagine you are walking down the street one day and – blam – you get run over by a truck. You wake up in heaven with a concerned looking angel wringing his hands and apologizing. He tells you that you were run over by mistakes, and you will be sent back to earth. As compensation for the error, you get to choose the kind of life you will have, the kind of work you will do, where you will live and so forth. The only limitation is that you will be the same you who got run over, so if you can’t sing, you can’t pick “rock star” as a career. What would you choose? What sort of work? What sort of life? Would it be different from what you said you wanted earlier? In other words, are you selling yourself short, looking at what is only probable? If you could have exactly what you wanted, what would that be? " *

My personal reflective response (off the cuff):
In this scenario, I would be sent back to work in the arts community. I would work to discover and produce new bands, keeping my fingers on the pulse of the music community, and finding the next new sound before it hits it big in the main stream.
I would also work in theatre, finding talented song writers and playwrights, and work with them to develop new books for theatre – being a face in the forefront of what is new in theatre. I would find new audiences and bring them into the theatre world.
I would meet and connect talent together – I would inspire those more skilled and talented than myself to make great things. I would be the voice of reason in creative meetings – but I would always have my hand in everything, guiding and working with others to develop new forms of art for the 21st century.
There would also be a part where I am able to feature my own talents in creativity: I would be something like the next Martha Stewart, in a way. Maybe something like a singing Martha. There would be music, crafts, performance, art, culinary art, and I would be surrounded by other talented people.
I would have an apartment in Seattle, and an apartment in Manhattan. I would be able to afford a trainer. There would be music around me, always music.

*From the book: Now What? by Nicholas Lore (c) 2008