This is what landing feels like 🛬

Hey ,

This is what landing feels like. 

Sitting on the sun soaked balcony you envisioned for a long time with a cold lemon infused sparkling water, a decaf earl grey tea with unhomogonised organic Puhoi Valley milk after an expansive morning yoga class. A fridge full of fresh oysters, beef, mussels, bone broth, veggies, seasonal fruit and everything you could desire for a healthy, energised body and the self love required to adhere to such nourishment thanks to 6 years of devotion. 

You’re looking at the boats cruise by on the flat expansive ocean as the birds and butterflies dart among the trees, this is what I’ve always wanted, this was always available to me, I didn’t know I wasn’t allowing myself the gift of the natural beauty that already existed within me and around me. I was very consumed with how success should look and who I should be surrounded by that I failed to recognise it was a felt sense I knew all too well, all along. 

I naively went on one hero’s journey after another to constantly come back to where I had always been, at one with nature, content with the beauty of each present moment life put in front me. At least this time, I am able to melt in deeper, the restlessness that my ‘contentment’ is out there has subsided, for now at least. 

For as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with success. It’s only been recently that I’ve let the determined, strong armed-sufferer subside enough to fully embrace the synchronicities that keep occurring. If I listen to my heart, acknowledge the voice in my head doesn’t know what’s best all the time, let the flow of life move through me, it’ll turn out better than I could have ever imagined. The irony is, it already has. 

It was a synchronistic moment when I got The Surrender Experiment from the library. 

Michael A. Singer wrote the infamous ‘Untethered Soul’ too, which I devoured in 2021 with post-it notes and a highlighter. 

The Surrender Experiment hasn’t taught me anything I didn’t already know, it’s shown me how I have always lived and solidified how that is certainly the ‘right way’ for me. 

ᅌ If I didn’t fully surrender in 2016, I wouldn’t have moved to San Francisco on nothing but hope and zero plans. 

ᅌIf I didn’t fully surrender in 2017, I wouldn’t have moved to London on nothing but hope and zero plans. 

ᅌIf I didn’t fully surrender at Dropbox, I wouldn’t have worked for Revolut, if I didn’t fully surrender at Revolut, I wouldn’t have moved back to New Zealand to start a life coaching business at 25 years old. 

ᅌIf I didn’t fully surrender to my life coaching business, I wouldn’t have moved to Melbourne in 2019 with $300 in my bank account and a $900 pre paid monthly sublet room. 

ᅌIf I didn’t fully surrender to the people and flow of events in Melbourne, I wouldn’t have surpassed $100,000 in my business the following year.

Surrendering and trusting that the series of events in life have lead me to where I am right now gives me great peace.

Anytime I suffer, it’s because the voice in my head wants it to be different. 

Anytime I suffer, it’s because what’s going on in my head is not congruent with what my heart knows. 

Anytime I thrive, it’s because I’ve aligned my heart, soul and mind with surrender, openness and trust that what is meant for me won’t miss me and that I will always be presented with what I can handle. 

In summary, landing feels like letting it unfold. 

It feels like letting your dharma course through you in every present moment. 

It feels like stopping to smell the roses while realising you’ve already arrived. 

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Here’s to…

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