A Life You Don't Want To Escape From

Imagine living a life that you don’t have to escape from. It’s so good, so full of all the things that you dreamed of, that you don’t even want to escape from it.

Sound amazing?

It is.

These are the kind of moments that I have about my life these days, and it all started a year ago. Well, longer ago than that, because it’s not like I can pinpoint one exact point where the change happened, but a year ago is where I started making real traction in my goals and dreams.

It’s when I went all in on making my life in Toronto the exact one that I wanted it to be.

Up until that point, I’d had one foot out the door pretty much the whole time I had been living there.

Toronto wasn’t where I wanted to live, and I felt like the only reason we were there was because of my husband’s job.

Sure, I didn’t completely hate my life 100% of the time. I had friends and family and things I liked to do.

But overall, there was a dissatisfaction with my life that wasn’t going away and I though it would be better elsewhere.

That spring, I decided that I was there because I wanted to be there. I realized that if I truly wanted to leave, I had options. I could go, if I wanted to.

This was when I signed up for yoga teacher training by my parents. (I didn’t end up going, but who I became in taking that strong of a stand for who I wanted to be changed everything.)

It’s when my husband finally got on board with selling our house; we finished all the work that needed to be done, listed, and sold it in just under a month.

This is when we moved into our RV for the summer – meaning Nic, myself, and our six kids lived in an RV with one bed and one fold out couch.

And it’s also when my hubby came up with the idea to move to Thunder Bay – we flew up here for the weekend and feel in love at first sight. I’ll never forget that feeling of I’m home when we landed.

This all happened because I decided to let go of my story that I couldn’t be happy in Toronto. It happened because in going all in, it freed up creative energy to see all of the options that were available to me.

Too many times we’re too stuck in our own pain and misery to see anything else. We’re too focused on how it isn’t possible to enjoy the life that we have, that we can’t see another way out of the dark hole that we’re in. Many times these are actual real physical things such as where you live, a physical illness or condition, or the fact that you can’t control the number of kids you have or how close they are together because of how you believe; but the more you focus on them, the more you miss out on what’s in front of you today.

Your life – today.

So what needs to change for you?

What do you believe is holding you back from being happy and having the life that you want to have?

If you were willing to see that you can be happy and have this circumstance in your life, what options would this open up for you?