While a lot of these self-care and mental health exercises helped me get to this point, I realized that a lot of the activities such as gratitude journaling, journaling, and even therapy mainly focus on the past and present struggles. I started asking myself the bigger question: “How can I set myself up to have long-term well-being? For the Future?” In pursuit to answer this question, I created a framework.
As we all know, 2020 was a crazy year that will go down in the history books. Let’s be real, it could’ve been better. But I hope we all come out of it more hopeful for the future. I’m sure there was A LOT to learn from 2020, and I’d like to take this opportunity to share the 5 most important lessons I’ve learned that I hope you can take for 2021.
What happens when there are multiple opportunities that come your way, but you can’t pursue more than one? How do you make a decision without any regret or remorse? In this article, I share my personal story on how I declined an opportunity some people would’ve fought to have while sharing my lessons learned on how to reframe your views about opportunity.
Society creates this illusion that the more we have in life, the better our life will be. Instead, we can focus on the lifestyle that we want to live based on our purpose and values. You’ll realize that you probably won’t need as much as you think. Once you have decided what kind of lifestyle you want, you'll know how much you need for any particular thing.
Culture, media, and society shape us into who we are now and influence us on what it means to be successful or how we should live our lives. But sometimes we forget to think about who we want to be and what we want actually to do with our lives. Living an intentional life means consciously choosing and being purposeful in what you want to do and how you want to live. To take ownership of your life, you must take ownership of the views you want to have, the actions you want to take, and the goals you want to accomplish.
