Are you cheating on your dreams you have about Paris?

ARE YOU CHEATING ON YOUR DREAMS YOU HAVE ABOUT PARIS?

So, have you ever felt like running away, escaping your life, starting new?

It’s a really romantic idea, no?

Places like New York and Paris seem to be capitals of people trying to escape from somewhere else.

Check out the article below to see if you are cheating on your dreams about Paris, and watch the video for a French fill-up!

(This week: the verb REMPLIR – to fill)

Unless you call Paris “home”, and not in a wishful thinking way, the City of light is going to elude you, tease you, invite you and always be a promise for a more or less short vacation.

My question to you is: would you rather keep thinking of a place and a world that you have access to in your dreams, bucket list, a 2 week vacation, or living your life in this moment and making the best of it?

I am watching thousands of people dreaming of the Eiffel tower, sighing at its sight and wanting another life than they lead, and I am wondering how healthy is such a life, after all.

I also see a lot of people refusing themselves a trip to their most desired city, under different excuses, and quite literally suffering because they didn’t make it to breathe the breeze au bord de la Seine.

If you are one of these people, I would like to ask you a couple of questions (as a good coach, I don’t consider myself the person who has all the answers, but rather the person who asks the best questions).

Think back in your life, when you really wanted to do something, or to have something. When you had a burning desire, and when you thought that nothing in this world would ever stop you from reaching that goal. What did you do to reach it? How did you find the means, the people, and the information that served you to get where you were supposed to get?

Do you think that going to Paris is in any way different?

If so, why is that, really?

So, assuming that, if you really wanted to go to Paris, live in Paris, do something in Paris, you would have gone by now, isn’t it logical that maybe you don’t want it that much?

And, while that might be arguably true, isn’t it worth it to look for a solution, and mend your longing for ‘something French’ in your life?

My suggestion is that you can bring Paris to your home. And that you can absorb as much French culture as you’d like and bring it into your home, your daily routine, maybe even in your community, until you get the courage to come to Paris.

This is why I go to New York with people like yourself, where there is such an intense French presence, where you can see that it is possible to have a bit of both worlds.

I show you how you can make conversation (despite your strongest convictions that you’re not that good – yet) in French, in a French café, with a French waiter and French music around.

My questions still stands: if you are not yet living in Paris (or going there whenever your soul calls for it), would you bring Paris home instead, or you’d feel that you are cheating on your dreams?

NOW IT IS YOUR TURN!
Which part of this article most resonated with you and why? What is the one action that you’ll take today? 🙂

Let me guess.