Alive and Awake: 6 Mantras for Living the Dream

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." Henry David Thoreau Walking on the beach in Costa Rica, surfboard in hand, after dropping my four kids at surf camp in a state of pure bliss, I feel so fully alive, giddy like a little kid coming out to play on a Saturday morning. I keep pinching myself, wondering, "Is this for real?" I am living the dream that I once thought was impossible to achieve. Fifteen years ago I was sharing a small cubicle, working 14 hours/day to save a bank money on pencils. I graduated from an elite business school and was hired to a top job in global management consulting. I was making great money and headed down a path of achievement and prestige. There was just one problem -- I was miserable. I could feel my soul being sucked out of me with every line of data I crunched. As the whispers of my soul became screams of anxiety, feeling trapped and empty, I took the first of many leaps and quit my job to travel around the world. I had no plan and, as a lifelong Type A perfectionist, I was terrified that I would never work again, but I leapt into the unknown and trusted that I'd figure it out on the way down. I wrote out a life plan that included a house full of kids, extensive traveling experiences, deeply transformational and high-impact work, financial freedom, and deep soul connections with loved ones. I put the plan in a drawer and didn't really think about it. Last week, as we moved our four kids to Costa Rica to set off an ope...
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