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Has the decision to sell up and sail away impacted my quality of life or not?

March 10, 2015 4 Comments

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Quality of Life

My Godson enjoying life to the fullest!

Warning: This article is all about flowing with life rather than sailing around the world. Some of my readers have noted that they’re not interested in the fluffy ‘how to live a more fulfilling life,’ stuff that I write about (and find so fascinating). So…if you’re life is totally amazing and you’re not interested in making it better I suggest you close this article and instead, read one of my travel reviews 🙂

Quality of life – has it been impacted?

Almost one year ago, in April 2014, my husband, 3 ½ year old daughter and I left the world we knew for a new life on the seas. The plan included selling our house, car, possessions, buying a sailboat and setting sail around the world.

Since I left what many friends and family members call,  ‘the real world,’ my life has dramatically changed…or perhaps I should rephrase that and say, as a human being, I have radically changed.

But as I write this I’m sitting in Boston International waiting for a plane to take me thousands of miles back to my yacht, currently moored in Sicily.

Let me get you up to speed

In April, we took our sailboat from Gibraltar to Malta (850+ miles) and throughout the summer we sailed around Italy, Greece and Turkey (over 3000+ miles). Our travels were massively amazing – read more of my blog to see what we got up to.

By October we had to find a place to ‘winter’ and therefore ducked into the marina at Marina di Ragusa in Sicily.

The Mediterranean isn’t a nice place to sail during the winter, and our initial plans to cross the Atlantic didn’t pan out, so…our around the world trip was put on hold for the winter. Heck – I wasn’t too upset – living in Sicily is one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life.

But that’s not what I want to write about today.

Today, I want write about the transformation I’ve experienced in less than a year. I want to demonstrate how my decision to drastically alter my quality of life and lifestyle has changed me – how it has led me to become more patient, less distracted, far less judgmental and far more alive.

I didn’t realize it until recently, but I’ve been a caterpillar for a very, very long time

I’ve inched my way around life slowly and at many times going in the wrong direction. Heck – I think I’ve fallen off the tree and have had to climb back up it over and over and over again. I might be premature in saying this but I feel as if I’ve finally found my wings. I’ve finally become a butterfly.

Back to Boston…why am I in Boston and why does being in Boston even matter?

My grandfather (age 91) has been in the hospital several times over the winter with pneumonia and my grandmother (age 86) has been recovering from cancer surgery.

Considering that I was ‘stuck’ in Sicily, I thought it would be a great opportunity to fly solo to the States to visit with family – especially grandma and grandpa.

The trip included three flights to get to the area that my mom and brother live in. And then several days later… two flights, with my brother, to get to my grandparents (and two flights back to my brothers area)…and then eventually three flights back to the boat enduring a massive snow storm, cancellations and reschedules.

Over the course of two weeks I’ve been in Sicily, Italy (Rome), New York (NYC), North Carolina, New York (Rochester) and Massachusetts (Boston). Logistically most people would have thought it was a nightmare.

Considering all the travelling, the fact that I got a terrible stomach bug that wiped me out for two days and a two day extension on my stay due to a massive storm, I’m amazed at myself for being so calm.

In fact, I’m more than calm – I’m easy-going, full of energy and seriously happy to have not only made the trip but have witnessed my, until recently noticed, metamorphous.

I suppose we often grow a lot yet we don’t benchmark ourselves between the ‘new version of ourselves’ and the ‘old version of ourselves’

By travelling back to America, my home, I was pleasantly surprised to see and feel like a different person. I had fundamentally changed but didn’t realize how massive the change was.

Being in the states allowed me to compare who I use to be with who I am now

Let me step back just a bit. Let me tell you who the old Kim was…

Back before we decided to sell everything and set sail, I was a work-a-holic, fast-food junkie, control freak. I worked hard and I played hard. I set out to make my millions and to me, nothing was more important than making lots of money.

After achieving a reasonable level of financial success and owning the house, car, boat, great vacations, etc. I had a reality crisis. I woke up one day and realized that all that’s left for me was to make more money.

That’s it – the game was over (in my mind). I had made a lot of money and I had everything I wanted. There was nothing more I could achieved accept to amass more money. Some people get off on making more and more money. For me, I didn’t see any benefit. What’s the point of having loads of money in the bank or in the market? Sure – I could get a bigger house, a bigger car or more vacations but that just didn’t float my boat. I didn’t want those things.

I wanted a fulfilling life…not more things

That’s when I entered my mid life challenge phase. I spent a year or so in a numb void realizing that I spent my life chasing after something that ultimately didn’t make me happy. Looking back, instead of getting up and living the best life I could, I got up and lived the life I thought I needed to live to make millions.

While in my void I slowly fell apart. I slowly started to be more and more honest with myself and realized I didn’t like who I was, where I was going or what I was doing. I also realized that there was only one person responsible for changing all those things…it was me.

So…I left my company, got rid of everything I owned, purchased a boat and set out to find a new life…a more fulfilling life.

I’d like to say my new life exceeded my expectations but that would be wrong

My new life is far better than I could have ever speculated. It is so amazingly fulfilling that I often have to pinch myself because I feel like I’ve transferred over into a heaven on Earth and the old me was living in hell.

No…I’m not going to sit here and preach out that everyone should sell everything and go sailing

What I am going saying, however, is that once you stop doing what you SHOULD do and start listening to who you are/what you want/what you like and start doing what makes you feel alive your reality drastically changes for the better.

As a side note, I get seasick

Sailing is not my number one passion, but being with my family, being outside, being on the water, connecting with amazing people, travelling, eating amazing foods, and writing about my learning lessons is what does fill me with massive amounts of passion.

And my life is not easy. I don’t have fun all the time. Things are not perfect.

I have struggles, bad days, bad weeks and bad times. Overall however, all the ‘bad’ things (if I must label them as bad) are so worth the life I’m now living.

Let me give you some solid examples of how things have changed for me

And let me be blunt – I don’t think the secret to a fulfilled life is about selling up and sailing. Yes, it’s worked for me but that’s not my message. My message is this – stop freaking doing things for others. Stop doing what you should do. Stop making other people’s business your business.

Start putting yourself first

Find out what you love and then work towards doing more and more of it. By doing so you are not being selfish…you are giving everyone around you a gift. You are proving that life can be heaven on earth. And the more of us that do this, the more that others can learn by example. The more fulfilled we are, the more fulfilled the world can be.

1. Going with the flow

Since leaving my old life, I’ve had to learn to seriously go with the flow. Especially when you’re sailing. Your intention might be to get to destination B but more often than not you end at destination C or D or E or get nowhere at all. Either the wind is wrong, there’s a storm coming or the engine dies!

What I’ve learned is that by going to the flow, wherever I end up is a great place with the option for amazing experiences

I’ve lost my attachment for things to go the way I want them to go. Now, I accept whatever happens knowing that wherever I end up will be fine. Sailing and the boat taught me this lesson and it’s expanded through to my ‘normal’ life.

For example, when I arrived in North Carolina to spend time with my parents, I had a mental list of all the things I wanted to do and see. The morning after I arrived I woke up to a snowstorm that shut the whole state down. Mom and I had to cancel our shopping/spa/lunch day and stay home instead. I just went with the flow and mom and I had a ball. In fact, usually I run around and get tired but this visit we hung out at home and actually created a whole new product line for my Sailing Britican store. The old me would have been annoyed at the snow, complained to anyone who would have listened and sulked around.

The new me went with the flow and enjoyed every moment

Another example – my brother and I flew up to Rochester, NY and my brother caught a bug on the way up. He was down for the first two days so I had to visit family without him. I was sad that he couldn’t join me but for the most part, I spent quite a lot of time with him sitting on the sofa (at a friends house where we were staying). We sat around joking, laughing and having a rather enjoyable time. The last two days we were in Rochester, I got sick! It was no big deal. I let the illness take its course and just chilled with my brother.

All in all, we didn’t do much yet the time we spent together was priceless

The old me would have wallowed in self pity thinking, ‘what a waste.’ As a side I spent loads of time with my grandparents and that was priceless too!

And finally, the day came for me to leave the States and a huge storm hit the whole East coast. My flight was cancelled and rebooked for a couple days later. The old me would have been livid. I would have been attached to getting back to Italy – to my hubby, daughter, friends and boat. I would have focused on not being able to see my hubby and daughter. But the new me just went with the flow. Due to a change in my flight route I was able to see my dear cousin – he met me in Boston and we enjoyed a couple hours together – something that wouldn’t have happened if the storm didn’t hit. Furthermore, I was able to go out with my brother and his wife on their ‘date night.’ We had a blast.

2. There’s no hole to fill

Back when I did what I should have done and lived in my big house with my fancy car, I always felt I had a hole to fill. Hubby and I would spend our free time shopping to buy things that would ultimately be left in a cupboard and usually forgotten. I spent years feeling the need to buy more shoes, more clothes, more house stuff and then, once I gave birth to my daughter, I had to buy more and more so that she could have the best of everything.

More, more, more, more. Holes, holes, holes…there was always a hole to fill!

During my various excursions on this trip, when the snow disappeared, my mom or my brother would ask, can I take you anywhere to get anything. Usually my response was, ‘nope – I don’t need anything.’ It’s so funny… I live on a boat so there’s no room for anything. My clothes are sun bleached, full of rust stains (from drying them on the metal safety rail around the boat), and falling apart. When something eventually passes the point of no return, I make a mental note to get a replacement and that’s all I replace.

There’s no need to buy more

Furthermore, I don’t watch TV anymore. No more TV means no more media and that helps me to avoid society from telling me what I should have. It’s funny, since I stopped watching TV I’ve stopped feeling so inadequate. Furthermore, my cravings for fast food has totally stopped!

Perhaps I felt as if something was missing in my old life?

I think that I was actually living a lie – I wasn’t being the best me I could be and therefore I always felt I had a hole to fill. Now that I’ve said, ‘screw it – I’m going to live life the way I want to live it,’ that hole has totally disappeared.

3. Time to be present

I really can’t stand it when people say that want to live in the ‘now’. It sounds so corny. But…that’s where this line of writing is going. For some reason my past no longer haunts me and my future is more about going with the flow. I choose to believe that everything works out and therefore, there’s no need to spend time worrying or speculating.

No…I’m not in the ‘now’ all the time – I have issues

I ruminate and get caught up with things every once in while…but in contrast to the old me, the transformation is nothing short of a miracle.

The old me was either feeling emotional pain because I was wronged as kid OR I would be experiencing increased stress levels because something didn’t go the way I wanted it to go. Neither of those things had any real meaning in my life! Thinking of the past or speculating about what might happen in the future was and is a total waste of time. I was so distracted by emails, drama, the news, being right…being perfect that I never just lived life as it came to me.

Now, I have all the time in the world for whomever I’m engaging with

Whether I have to take twenty minutes to explain something to a child or I’m engaging in an interesting adult discussion. Furthermore, I have time to really look a sales clerk in the eye and respond genuinely to the ‘how are you?’ question and genuinely return the question. The smiles I get when I truly engage with people – even people on a very casual basis – are deep and full of energy.

I don’t know how I became so distracted by non-life?

But now I can see the difference. Boy, can I see the difference.

4. Acceptance of my past

Up until this past visit every time I visited my hometown of Rochester, NY I went through a constant good/bad judgment game in my head. I’d justify my decision to leave ‘home’ by picking out all the ‘bad’ things about Rochester and more significantly, I’d remember all the ‘bad’ experiences. My thoughts would sound like this, ‘This city is a shithole. How do people live here? How do people live with so much snow? My time in school was the worst time of my life. I hate this street. I hated my life here….’

It wasn’t pretty

During this trip I didn’t make any judgments. I felt myself wanting to do so but instead of thinking something was good or bad, I just kept saying to myself ‘there is no good or bad – there’s just my interpretation of it.’

I didn’t get caught up in a bad memory

I didn’t look down on people that live there. I didn’t think I was better for ‘getting out’. I didn’t feel anything accept for a genuine happiness to be able to spend time with my brother, my grandparents and my aunt, uncle and cousins.

My mind didn’t spiral. I just went with the flow and by doing that my past record of judging everything as either good or bad, black or white didn’t need to exist anymore.

It was weird. It was empowering. It was beautiful.

So…it’s been eleven months since I left land and they’ve been the most remarkable months that I’ve ever had. Yes – it’s cool that I’m sailing around in a boat, but what’s more impressive is that I’m now flowing with life. Rather than paddle insanely up a raging river, I’m letting life take me where it wants to take me.

All I’m doing is waking up every morning, making sure that I’m doing more of what I love and letting the flow of life take me where it wants to take me.

Wooo woooo!

In conclusion, I haven’t written this article to say, ‘look at me – look how great my life is…’ I’ve written this article because I’m a born-again-human. I’ve realised that life can be amazing and I want anyone out there that doesn’t feel alive to realise we all have the opportunity to make changes…to improve our quality of life.

Enough said. May you have an awesome day…big love, Kim

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  1. Pete says

    March 17, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    that’s the soppy stuff done with, on ith the adventure, the food, the people, the dolphins will probably put in an appearance and the wind will be forever at your backs (and the sail WILL go up and down)

    Best wishes on your next leg,

    Pete

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    • Kim Brown says

      March 18, 2015 at 8:06 am

      Thank you for commenting Pete! I’m certainly looking forward to the next leg 🙂

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  2. David Lester says

    October 22, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    Finally! I was wondering how long it would take for you to act like you’re retired (Great big smile right here)

    It’s amazing the way our minds work isn’t it.

    You didn’t make a lot of money in the past for yourself and your family, you made it to show off and be “someone” and now, you’re just like us old retired jokes who have the opportunities to finally live a life of happiness doing what we want to do rather than enjoying the rat-race.

    Money only allows you the time to do what you find interesting, without stress. That’s what happens in retirement. The pension money comes in each month and we do what we want.

    Your non-stressed mind has finally arrived and life is good, Not perfect, but a lot better than before, since you really don’t have to worry about impressing anyone going forwards.

    Lovely to see the changes and reflect with you in your endeavours.. I am not jealous of what you do! Lord knows I’d be seasick in a bathtub ().

    I am jealous that you’re still young and doing what you do. At my age, time is very precious, as it is with your GrandDad and GrandMa.

    Enjoy your freedom, stay safe and give that small (and big) angel a hug every morning!

    Fair seas and winds.

    David …..

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    • Kim Brown says

      December 22, 2015 at 10:55 pm

      Thanks so much for this message David. You make me realise just how grateful I am to be doing what we’re doing. Big smiles, 🙂

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How often do you practice true freedom?

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The saying "Plans are written in sand at low tide" The saying "Plans are written in sand at low tide" is a metaphorical expression that conveys the idea that plans and intentions are often transient and subject to change. It suggests that plans, like words written in sand, can easily be washed away or altered by unforeseen circumstances or changing conditions.

Just as the tides can rise and erase what is written in the sand, life can bring unexpected events, obstacles, or opportunities that can disrupt or redirect our plans. It highlights the notion that despite our best intentions and meticulous planning, external factors can arise that require us to adapt or abandon our initial course of action.

This saying serves as a reminder to remain flexible, open-minded, and resilient in the face of uncertainty. It emphasizes the importance of being prepared to adjust our plans and embrace change when necessary, recognizing that life is dynamic and unpredictable.

Nothing teaches you more about flexibility, open-mindedness, and resilience than being a sailor!

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"Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no "Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never." Alan Bennett

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