This is optimal living daily episode 2996 creating a sense of possibility by

Tony a Lester of Tony a Lester.com and I'm Justin Molick and we're going to get right

to today's post and continue optimizing your life.

Creating a sense of possibility by Tonya Lester of Tony Lester. of Tonielestar.com.

Several years back, a friend relocated from New York City to Portland, Oregon with her young family.

They left for all the reasons everyone moves from New York

City, a chance to own a house with a yard, to escape the craziness of the school system here,

and have a more reasonable cost of living.

On a visit back a group of us went to dinner and someone asked if there was anything

she missed about New York City.

After a pause she said,

I missed the feeling that I could walk out the door and anything could happen.

It felt like something magical could fall into my lap.

That excitement and sense of possibility is probably why 90% of transplants moved to New York City in the first place, myself included, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of and all that. But feeling a sense of possibility is not just

linked with living in a big city. It's also associated with youth, a time when

serendipity, igniting hope and fulfilling your potential feels almost inevitable.

Looking around the table that night, we were all deep in the grind of work and family.

Not one of us was walking out the door each morning, thinking something magical might happen,

no matter where we lived.

After a certain age, does it start to feel like life surprises are usually bad ones?

And if so, is there a way to fight that Groundhog's Day feeling when so many of life's big decisions are settled?

There is.

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