What If You’re Already Living Your Dream?
In this episode of Pearls of Wisdom, Julia explores the human tendency to keep postponing our lives -waiting for the next achievement, the next relationship, the next destination, the next version of ourselves, but then ask the question ‘What if we are already living our dreams’…
This isn't about giving up ambition or big goals. Quite the opposite. Julia explores the idea of “run and become” pursuing our goals in the outer world while simultaneously making the inner journey.
Drawing on her life as a runner, the philosophy of staying in the step, and one of her favourite poems Ithaka, she explores what happens when we stop making the destination responsible for our happiness.
Because perhaps the race isn't really about the finish line, the richness is in the miles.
The failures, the setbacks, the unexpected turns, the relationships, the discoveries, the moments of joy, all of these become part of the journey of becoming.
So we can still dream. We can still stretch. We can still run towards extraordinary things.
But what if we don't have to leave this moment in order to get there?
What if we can go inwards as we go outwards?
And we fully realise
This is it, not “this is all there is” but this is life.
This moment. This breath. This relationship. This work. This body. This journey.
We can spend so much of our lives preparing to live that we forget that life was happening while we were getting ready.
And then when we finally arrive at our Ithaka, we discover that the destination was never really the point.
The journey was the gift.
