There’s nothing more satisfying than experiencing a long-time dream become a reality. Looking back you wonder how it happened, but deep inside you know how: you put your intention out there and the universe responded. That’s what this year has brought to me, a dream come true: my childhood desire to live closer to the ocean.

When looking at the water, apart from experiencing a sense of peacefulness, I stare in wonderment and disbelief, but it is real, and I am enjoying it!

Apart from my passion for exercise and food, I have always been in love with the outdoors: the water, the green fields, birds, and the extensive variety of wild animals; something I greatly missed while living in New York City and only got to enjoy a few long weekends during the year.

Now I look around and I feel I’m becoming part of it all. This feeling is particularly elevated while sailing; when I’m inside a boat in the middle of the bay propelled by the wind and the current – this is one of the most vivid moments of “being in the present”, completely in rhythm with nature’s pulse. Then my hightened awarenenss of the natural tapestry surrounding my existence subsides. The observer becomes the observed. Two become one.

And yes of course, once you’ve traded in one dream for reality, it is only a matter of time that the next one will follow, but let me enjoy the present for now, and allow my intentions to do its job.