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C’est la vie. It’s a common expression, but I’ve never liked it much. “That’s life.” It’s mostly used to communicate that life is harsh but we must accept it. It’s often delivered by a friend or parent to suggest we had set our expectations too high.

I like to begin my seminars by asking people to imagine that we are all dining at the imaginary Restaurant la Vie, where they have no printed menu, because you can order whatever you want. What do you want? Everything is available. Some things may take a little longer for the cook to prepare. The prices for some items are higher than others. Some things have fancy-sounding names that you may not fully understand and that may not live up to their promise. But everything is available. Anything you want, you can have.

What if everything in life were available to you?

There are, of course, a few exceptions. Perhaps by accident of birth and reasons of citizenship, you cannot become the President of the United States or King or Queen of England. Or perhaps you do not possess the gift from God necessary to become a famous concert pianist or the world champion of chess.

But if you lived in a world where nearly everything was on the menu, what would you order? Could you even believe this is possible? And what could be the consequences of such belief? What would you then choose? How would you go about ordering?

What kind of restaurant do you dine in now? Do they serve haute cuisine? Or is it a cafeteria? Or is it one of those Soviet restaurants where the knife is chained to the table and you have to ask what they have, because even though there are two hundred items on the menu (with their weight in grams next to each one), they only have the pork?

What kind of restaurant would you like to dine in? Would you like to dine in Restaurant la Vie? I think we’d all like to eat in a better restaurant. And in Restaurant la Vie, the menu is yours to create. The menu is created by dreaming.