Live virtual workshop

Know What You Want

A year-end workshop to look back at 2026, learn what it says about who you are, and go into next year with more clarity about what you want.

Save your seat — $79

Embrace Possibility subscribers get an early rate through November 20. Not subscribed? Join free

When: Sunday, December 6
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Where: Live on Zoom
Group: 16 people, not recorded
Includes: Early access to Fieldbook and a January check-in

Why start here

Most year-end reviews start with goals. That's backwards.

Knowing what you want starts with knowing who you are.

Without clarity on what you actually want, goals become a list of shoulds that quietly fade by February.

Start instead with the year you just lived: what gave you energy, what you kept coming back to, what you avoided. The answers are already there. This workshop helps you read them.

What we'll do together

Two hours to look back, see clearly, and choose what's next.

01Look back at your yearFind the moments that felt most like you — and the ones that didn't.

02Notice what keeps pulling youThe topics, people, and problems you return to again and again.

03Name what mattersIn your own words — not a list of values someone handed you.

04See your best conditionsThe pace, people, and setting where you do your best work.

05Choose one next stepSmall enough to start in January, specific enough to finish.

Included: Fieldbook early access

Clarity fades. Fieldbook helps it stick.

Most of what you realize in a workshop fades within weeks because there's nowhere to put it. Fieldbook, a private app from Vana Lab, is that place: you'll set it up in the session and keep adding as the year unfolds.

It doesn't tell you who you are. It shows you what you've noticed, and you draw the conclusions.

Take a look at Fieldbook →

Fieldbookby Vana Lab

Notice

What gave you energy?

Rebuilt our team's campaign-tracking spreadsheet. Looked up and three hours were gone.

Look across

See your entries side by side. You decide what they mean.

Rebuilt the team's campaign spreadsheet — lost track of time
Made the group trip budget spreadsheet, just for fun
Sunday: compared apartments in a spreadsheet, happily

"spreadsheet" shows up in 3 entries

You named it

I took the marketing job for the creative side. What lights me up is making sense of numbers.

Test it

Ask the analytics team if I can help with one report this month.

As expected

Exactly what I thought. I'm signing up for a data course.

Is this for you?

This workshop is for you if…

The year flew by and you're not sure what it added up to.
You're at a crossroads and want a clearer basis for choosing.
You keep setting goals that don't stick.
You're doing well on paper, but want more of your life to feel like your own.

It's not for you if you want someone to hand you the answer. I won't tell you what you want. I'll help you see what's already there.

From earlier Know What You Want workshops

What past participants said

"I received personalized advice and ideas to reach my own specific goals, rather than generic ideas I could have read in self-help books."
Lup M., Web Developer

"The course made me really slow down to reflect on who I am, my values, what was important and not important in my life."
Amy K., Portfolio Manager

"This workshop is not an infomercial promising instant results. You will gain an understanding of your values and establish a strong foundation to help you move forward."
Job S., Financial Services Consultant

Who's leading this

Hi, I'm Robert.

I followed other people's definition of success all the way to a trading desk, where I did well on paper and wondered whether the work fit me. What changed things was getting to know myself: what gives me energy and where I do my best work. This workshop grew out of sharing that process with friends asking the same questions.

Since then I've coached executives, written the Wall Street Journal bestseller Selling Your Expertise, taught leadership communication at Wharton, and founded Vana Lab.

The details

Good to know

When: Sunday, December 6, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET, plus a 45-minute check-in on Saturday, January 9, 10:00 AM ET.
How much: $79. Embrace Possibility subscribers get an early rate through November 20. Checkout is handled by Vana Lab, the company behind Fieldbook.
Before the workshop: A week ahead, you'll get the Zoom link and two questions to sit with. No homework pile.
What if I can't make it?: Full refund up to 7 days before the workshop.
Will it be recorded?: No. Small, unrecorded groups make it easier to say what you actually think.
What do I need?: A computer, a quiet spot, and something to write with. Fieldbook runs in your browser.

Go into next year with more clarity about what you want.

Sunday, December 6 · 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET · 16 seats

Save your seat — $79