“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
2022 has been an uprooting year, the actualization of a new chapter, the opportunity to discover more of who I am under different lifestyle conditions, new surroundings, and new pace of work-life balance. A chance to leave the harbour and set sail for destinations unknown.
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
In 2020, the world shifted into a state of fear and uncertainty. I seized it as an opportunity to lean into my fears and the uncertainty I’ve thrived on for growth and development all throughout my life. 2021 was my sabbatical, my excuse to change it up, test the waters of the world beyond Toronto. A push beyond my comfort bubble of domesticated routine life, a life I adore and worked very hard to achieve, but alas, a life of controlled predictability. I needed a challenge to change, grow, and evolve beyond the me that I had once loved becoming. It was then that I knew I needed a new version of me to love becoming, a knowing that was there, but not quite ready for, until now.
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
My unrelenting curiosity and compounding readiness have prepared me for a new life of exploration; more inward travel with the aid of outward travel. No responsibilities to micro-manage, no expectations to meet, no trajectory to fulfill, 2022 is of my own making, purely, freely, and as chaotically controlled as my dreams can derive.
My year started with 3 goals:
1. Learn from relationship
2. Learn construction skills to become a better handyman, home-builder, and utility-based human
3. Learn through travel: travels inward with new practices, medicines, modalities, and alternative experiences, and travels outward to new places, new perspectives, interacting with new philosophies to life.
“Cheers to who I was and to who I am yet to be”
As I reflect back on the first quarter of the year, I’ve definitely learned a heck of a lot in a short period of time. With many bumps, bruises, heartaches, and ego deaths, some would say enough for a lifetime, but the quest continues as my thirst for adventure has yet to be quenched.
I hope you enjoy my highlight video of the first quarter of my year. My intention with this video is to inspire, showcase a life switch up, primarily for my future self to look back on, and of course for you, my friends and family.
“You’ll never be worth your word if your actions don’t follow.”
Wishing you wellness, goodness, and fulfillment in Q2 2022,
May the force be with you,
Julian