As kids, we believed anything was possible.

Then life happened.

Maybe it was a diagnosis.  A divorce.  A loss.

Or simply years of putting everyone else first.

Whatever it was... things changed.

Slowly, we changed, too.

Our dreams were pushed so far into the background, that we stopped believing the life we wanted was still within reach.

Waking up to alarm clocks we hated, working jobs that drained us, and pretending to be fulfilled in a day to day we somehow drifted into.

We kept saying that we'd travel someday, start the business someday, write the book someday...

Quietly convincing ourselves...

"It's just the way life is."

We got stuck.





But then, a series of life-threatening medical diagnoses reminded me that someday... may never come.

And while I can't fully explain the feelings of planning for your own death, I can tell you this...

It. changed. everything.

I began searching for the life I wanted. And when I couldn't find it?

I built it instead.

For the first time, I stopped waiting and started designing.

I spent four months rethinking my entire life.

Instead of asking what was expected of me, I figured out what I actually wanted.

Because the real goal was never just to survive life.

It was to build one I couldn't wait to wake up to.

Yep... somewhere along the way, life happens, things change, we change.

Oof... that was me, too.