“This is what happens when grown-ups play pretend,” I told my girls as we sat at dinner the first night of our trip in Serenbe, GA last week.

Serenbe is a self-described biophilic community outside Atlanta that was started in 2000 and doesn’t fully feel like a real place. Not in a bad way, just in a “this place is so beautiful and protected and friendly it’s hard to believe it actually exists” kind of way.

It came to be because of people who let themselves imagine what it could be.

Serenbe has three places to get a latte or cappuccino, Mike and my beverages of choice.

The first morning after we dropped the kids at camp we tried the place with the Scandinavian-inspired design, its minimalism making me feel chaotic by contrast the moment I walked in.

​​​​​​​My latte was excellent and we made a new friend, but it wasn’t the kind of cozy place you’d want to camp out for hours.

Mike has trouble adjusting his face for the selfies that I subject him to.

Then I tried another spot on my own one morning. Cute, but the latte was meh.

On Thursday, we went back to the first day’s spot again and got coffee to go.

There was a coffee shop a block away from the house we were staying in. We’d passed it several times every day but hadn’t tried it out because I thought I’d heard someone mention it wasn’t as good as the others.

But on Friday, our last morning, we decided to check it out. Leave no stone unturned, you know?

And you know what? It was the best latte I had all week.

They served it in a beautiful double-layered glass mug that was satisfying to hold and pleasing to the eye. There were ladies sitting together knitting and crocheting and chatting it up. The energy was so warm and inviting.

I ended up sitting for three hours in my writing bubble of bliss. The caffeine and ambience helped the words pour right out of me.

In the end, the best place had been closest to our house the whole time. We’d driven our golf cart all over Serenbe in search of the best coffee spot, yet we found it basically next door.

How often do we look everywhere other than right in front of us (or right down the block, in this case) for what we want?

We think that meeting our desires must mean logging more miles, going on some kind of epic search, or getting way beyond what’s immediately available.

But sometimes everything we wanted was three minutes or less from our front door.

This applies to lattes and nearly everything else.

Which brings me to something I’m excited about this week:

A conversation about what happens in the body when someone gets everything they want.

It’s with my dear friend Emily Fletcher, a global expert on meditation and embodied manifesting, who’s helped over a million people release stress from their bodies so their dreams start chasing them instead of the other way around.

The only way we can find the perfect latte that we’ve been passing by every day without knowing it, or the perfect man or job or client, is to learn how to stop trying to get what we want from a physical state of stress.

And this episode of Plenty gets right to the heart of how.

This is unlike any conversation you’ve ever heard about getting what you want. It lives at the intersection of neuroscience, quantum physics, and ancient spiritual wisdom.

Press play on What’s Actually Happening in the Body When People Receive What They Want with Emily Fletcher.

Everything we want already exists. We just have to get ourselves synced up with it so we can see it, experience it, and enjoy it.

It’s not a head trip. Learning how to use the incredible technology your body came pre-loaded with is the path to getting everything that’s meant for you.

So whether it’s the perfect latte, the dream home, or something else entirely, don’t forget that it might be closer to home than you originally thought.

Xo,
Kate