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| LOCATION: Lying on a bench in the Starbuck\u2019s in Chiangi Singapore Airport waiting for 7 am |<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I prepared to be out of the country again for several months with the loosest of plans, I kept feeling the pull to stay home.<\/p>\n

“Your bed is SO comfortable… It’s the only thing you miss when you’re gone.”<\/p>\n

Or the little half-thoughts, “There’s so much to do with your company. So much easier to stay on track if you’re just here instead.”<\/p>\n

“Cozy……”<\/p>\n

“How much less stressful will it be–no packing!! Everything you need already right here. No getting ready to sublet. You’re right at the crunch-time of your rebrand, you could just wait–”<\/p>\n

“How many hours of flying?!!”<\/p>\n

A dear friend said last week, Carmell, you’re living the life so many want to live. And I asked him, Really?!<\/p>\n

The truth is, every great kind of life requires sacrifice of some sort<\/em>. And from what I’ve learned, that ALWAYS includes sacrificing comfort.<\/p>\n

From the outside, our life may look like business as usual or it may appear glamorous, but if it is something great, you will find sacrifice in it.<\/p>\n

I don’t use this word lightly. I’m not a martyr or a victim.<\/p>\n

I choose in.<\/p>\n

It took only 7 hours into my 30 hours of flying–I was somewhere over the North Pacific toward Russia–that I felt the shift. The return of my hard-won love affair with Relocation.<\/p>\n

Leaving where I am for something new again, struggles and challenges in the simplest daily needs, wonder and creativity off the charts. The anxiety (and exhilaration) of not knowing.<\/p>\n

I write this as I made it by minutes onto my Tokyo–Singapore leg, then spent the last 4 hours sleeping on the Starbucks sofa from 1:30-4:30 am waiting to check in for my 7 am flight. Last leg ?<\/p>\n

We all long for home. But that’s not the same as comfort. And confusing those two might keep us comfortably stranded on a tiny familiar island for years or decades, dreaming and never doing.<\/p>\n

#adventuroussoul
\n#relocation
\n#agreatliferequiressacrificingcomfort
\n#lifeartist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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