Dream and Then Do
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Fulfilling your dreams requires you to adjust your life.
I fulfilled two dreams this year!
The first is living at the beach for a month! I could always see this dream, but it was always so far off, so distant, but I could see it. I thought it could happen in 10 years, maybe when I was in my late forties or fifties? It took some big changes to make this dream happen. Decide to uproot in the midst of a pandemic, both agree and be motivated to achieve this goal, put our house on the market and make it look so damn f-ing good that people would want to snap it up, make this happen in the span of 2 weeks while both working, pack up 4 years & drop that stuff like it’s hot into storage, move in with my parents!!! - our new home base every few months, have intuition and act on it, knowing this is something I wanted & needed & dreamed about doing.
The other dream being fulfilled - with a big caveat that this is a work in progress and I could be doing this my whole life - is freeing myself from work/a job/a way of working that I have angst-ed about for the better part of my adult life. I’ve wanted out of the corporate world for so long and I have taken a step in that direction. However small, I need to celebrate this. I’m freer in the physical sense, by not having to go into an office and to sit at a desk all day - though this was greatly helped by the pandemic. But, I’m freer much more so, mentally. From the idea that all my worth is in my job. That the biggest measure of a (my) successful life is my job/career. That my life won’t be complete if I don’t figure out my career. That my career and calling and purpose all have to be the same. I had to adjust my life and my thinking to achieve this. It took a lot of restraint and self talk to not jump back in and try to get the next, better, higher paying, higher title job after being laid off. But that would be doing what I have been doing for 15+ years and it wasn’t working for me. And instead push myself to try something different.
So looking back, that’s how you fulfill dreams.
