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how I built the life I imagined
your dreams have a funny way of coming true, but…
Dream are only dreams until you create a plan to make those dreams a reality.
April 26, 2018. I was feeling lost, feeling unmotivated, feeling stuck. I was afraid, at age twenty-two, that time was already running out for me and that I could not accomplish all the things I wanted to do in a lifetime.
That’s when an old coworker from the boxing gym I taught at popped back into my life with this simple ask:
Where can you see yourself in one year from now, and what’s stopping you?
I put it on paper (or rather, a Google Doc), as all writers do —
One year from now, I’m working from a sunny coffee shop in Santa Monica. The bright sunshine pours in; there are white walls, wooden tables, and the scent of the sea in the air.
My hair is still drying from my morning ocean swim. I’m training for an open water race, and I alternate swimming in the ocean with a…
