Humans need love in order to feel happy and free in the same way that a car needs gasoline or electricity in order to drive. Would you blame your car for running out of gas after you’ve driven a couple hundred miles? Of course not. Your life is busy, and it can be mighty draining and tiring, just like your car after driving a couple hundred miles. It’s easy to get out of balance and start feeling meh — like your love tank is running on empty. That’s why I’d urge you to drop any baggage you might be feeling about needing more love in your life. It’s not like you meant to get out of balance! Besides, we all run low on love for different reasons. Love depletion can be nearly impossible to prevent or control, no matter how awesome you are at “doing life.” Like maybe you never had a fair shot at love until now, because you had such a loveless childhood. Or maybe you’ve been so busy taking care of one area of love in your life (like your kids and your spouse), that you haven’t had the chance until now to find some much-needed love for the physical, emotional, or spiritual parts of yourself. But I’m getting ahead of myself. If we’re going to talk about wanting love, then we’ve got to remove the ridiculously unhelpful smoke-and-mirrors mystery out of love itself. Love is simply your natural human desire to enjoy your relationships with the people, places, and things in your world — including yourself. In that sense, you could say that love is built right into who you are, by way of your human instinct to have desires! So, yes — love is a desire. But love is also a feeling. (A whole bunch of different feelings, actually.) Love can be expressed by an action, too. But love is fulfilled in a relationship. That’s why the way to fulfill your Burning Desire (no matter what it is) is to start feeling lots more love in relation to yourself. I want you to think about your process of fulfillment as an unfolding relationship — which you could also call a love story. Simply put, it’s the story of you, in an increasingly rewarding relationship with your Burning Desire. The process of building a loving relationship will unfold in several stages — and not always in order. You will become intimately acquainted with the object of your attraction — that is, your Burning Desire. You will discover how to stoke your fires of connection to your Burning Desire, and enter into a “serious relationship” with what you want. You will become willing to let go of whatever barriers are making it difficult to love and get close to your Burning Desire. You will learn how to speak the love languages of your Burning Desire, which invites it to connect more easily and enjoyably with you. Finally, you will learn how to fuel your Burning Desire with the ultimate confidence-booster (and all-around feel-good medicine): self-love. I hope that love story doesn’t just sound like something you’d like to watch — but actually experience! If that’s the case, the next step towards getting your love story started is simple. But I know it’s not always easy. You have to acknowledge that love is what you want to feel. ❤️‍🔥— Y.B.D.