This is spot on. I dreamed of taking a year on the road for years. I thought about that magical "someday" for far too long. Then my FT job imploded and I was like, well, it's now or never. I wasn't ready. But I leaped anyway. I think about it often - how scared I was to upend my life and how beautifully it all worked out. I have a courage now that I never would've found if I had let that dream pass me by.
I love this Kari! I love that you took a potentially negative situation and turned it into the fuel you needed to go live your dream! Thanks so much for reading & sharing your story. Very inspiring ❤️
I can commit 5 hours this week to work on a side hustle to help bring it to life. That's something that doesn't make me full-on panic. Freedom is my dream, but it's also scary...baby steps...
I grew up hearing adults bemoaning and regretting the things they didn't do, trips they didn't take, etc. So, I vowed I wouldn't put off things that mattered to me.
Visiting every continent (except Antarctica) was one of my goals. Of course, I thought about how I'd manage this financially, especially because I also wanted to have a family, get a Ph.D. and complete other goals.
But then I read an article in Reader's Digest. A woman lamented how she and her husband saved $ for ten years to travel the world because they didn't want to get in debt. Just as they had enough $ to book their trip, he died. She wrote that article urging readers never to put off your major goals. She wished they had gone into debt to make the trip and then spent ten years after they returned paying it off.
So, I proceeded to get married, build our family, earn my Ph.D., travel and go after other goals too. I'm so happy I didn't postpone my major goals because the perfect time never comes. I've experienced that when I hold a dream/goal in my mind so firmly that I can't think of anything else, the way to bring it about appears and in an unexpected way.
This is spot on. I dreamed of taking a year on the road for years. I thought about that magical "someday" for far too long. Then my FT job imploded and I was like, well, it's now or never. I wasn't ready. But I leaped anyway. I think about it often - how scared I was to upend my life and how beautifully it all worked out. I have a courage now that I never would've found if I had let that dream pass me by.
I love this Kari! I love that you took a potentially negative situation and turned it into the fuel you needed to go live your dream! Thanks so much for reading & sharing your story. Very inspiring ❤️
I can commit 5 hours this week to work on a side hustle to help bring it to life. That's something that doesn't make me full-on panic. Freedom is my dream, but it's also scary...baby steps...
Absolutely! Thats how it’s built, baby steps, one in front of the other! ❤️
I grew up hearing adults bemoaning and regretting the things they didn't do, trips they didn't take, etc. So, I vowed I wouldn't put off things that mattered to me.
Visiting every continent (except Antarctica) was one of my goals. Of course, I thought about how I'd manage this financially, especially because I also wanted to have a family, get a Ph.D. and complete other goals.
But then I read an article in Reader's Digest. A woman lamented how she and her husband saved $ for ten years to travel the world because they didn't want to get in debt. Just as they had enough $ to book their trip, he died. She wrote that article urging readers never to put off your major goals. She wished they had gone into debt to make the trip and then spent ten years after they returned paying it off.
So, I proceeded to get married, build our family, earn my Ph.D., travel and go after other goals too. I'm so happy I didn't postpone my major goals because the perfect time never comes. I've experienced that when I hold a dream/goal in my mind so firmly that I can't think of anything else, the way to bring it about appears and in an unexpected way.