Ten Years Later, So Many Dreams Realized / 10年で見たらいっぱい叶っていた！

Yesterday I was in the final session of a group coaching program I had been attending monthly since February. Over the past six months, I took time to reflect on my life—and realized, to my surprise, how much I’ve actually done.

In shorter spans like three days or even three months, it can be hard to see any real change. But when you look back over three years, let alone ten, you might find that a lot has shifted.

Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and riding the wave of the internet boom, I started working for a computer company. Back then, I dreamed of studying or working abroad (computer science PhD in the US, cooking in Italy or France ...), and maybe even starting my own business.

Since then, I’ve changed jobs, gone back to university, and spent a year researching in Austria between 2011 and 2012. That experience eventually led me to move to Germany in 2013, where I did start my own business.

My interest in food—which I once hoped to study abroad has become part of my work. I ended up in Germany instead, but maybe I still dream a little of Italy, as I’ve been keeping up with daily Italian lessons on Duolingo (somehow I couldn’t keep the momentum with Spanish ...) I wonder my stomach studies the language 😁

I used to wonder: would it be nice to have kids? To have a family that brings comfort and belonging? Would it be too hard? Today, I have a small family of three—my partner, our daughter, and me.

When life gets busy, it’s easy to slip into a “not enough” mindset. But if we pause and look back over the past three, five, or ten years, we might see how many of our hopes have quietly come true. And once we notice that, it feels more possible to take 1mm daily micro steps seed for the next ten years too.

How do you think? How was your last 10 years?

昨日、2月から半年間毎月受講していたグループコンサルティングの最終回がありました。この6ヶ月で自分の人生を振り返って、「あれ、10年で見てみると、意外とできている！」ということ気づきました。

そんな気づきを日本語ではnoteに書きました。よかったら覗いてみてください。

大丈夫、10年で見たらいっぱい叶ってる - note