Recently my crew and I had fun helping release some baby turtles to the sea. These ones are Oliver Ridley turtles, and are classified as an endangered species.

The reserve is on a protected beach about 40mins from my house in Nicaragua.

While I was on the beach watching these little guys go from what they knew to a life unknown I was thinking about our life journeys. I was thinking about how most of us seek routine and predictability in an effort to make sense of our lives.

Sometimes this strategy works…for a while. We feel as though we can understand the world from the point of view of predictability, as long as everything goes to plan.

But what happens when it doesn’t?

What happens when life throws you a curve ball or as in the case of the last 2 years, life throws everyone a curve ball?

What then?

Does the routine, or life plan you have chosen (because you have chosen it, either consciously or unconsciously) continue to match the life you want?

Three years ago we decided to go on a journey, much like the little turtles, from the known to the unknown. We did this because the life we wanted looked different from the life we had somehow built for ourselves.

We started by selling our stable, profitable business.

Selling most of our stuff and then moving to a country where we didn’t speak the language.

The journey isn’t easy, (I’m not great at languages, sunburn easy and hate mosquitoes), but have learnt to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, both physically and mentally.

I’ve come to realize that there might not be an end destination to this journey, a place where suddenly everything clicks, but that the journey is more about the learning we receive as we go, the inner discovery and the outer discovery.

I can see how it has made myself and my children stronger, more independent and more self reliant.

For some helping to release turtles would only be a dream.

For us, it’s a 40min drive away because we dared to start the journey.

What journey do you want to take?

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