LIFE IS GROWTH

If you don’t grow; if you don’t change, or learn — what’s the point? You might as well be dead.

Learn from your wins and from your failures. Learn from everything and everyone you come across.

Push your boundaries. Stretch them. Eliminate them when needed. (You know I’m talking about you and your own boundaries here, right? Not about the other people invading them.)

If you can set any goal that you really want to stick to, make it a short-term one.

Easy and simple: Don’t wake up the same person you were yesterday.

Every subtle change you achieve in constructing the new version of you is a win.

Maybe, you learned to say ‘No’ when it was necessary. Or, maybe, you managed to be a little more patient and understanding than usually. Maybe, you learned a new skill, or at least took the first step towards mastering it. All these things make you a slightly different YOU.

Defeated your fear?

Or gained a new fear that you can now work on defeating?

This all means that you’re ALIVE. You’re breathing, growing, and changing.

And that’s what life is all about.

Ever watched “Groundhog Day”? Well, there is no “groundhog day.” Even the concept of the so-called “groundhog day” is a nightmare, isn’t it? The whole idea of the movie was to show us that we can CHANGE and LEARN and GROW. And only then life starts HAPPENING.

Going through life on autopilot isn’t living.

Embrace your life. Own it. Enjoy it. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Not enjoying it? Do something to change it. Anything. Can’t change the circumstances? Change yourself.

Sometimes, one small change is all it takes. To set your life in motion.

And sometimes, you’ll need to put much more effort into it.

But don’t be intimidated by the ‘Everest’ you ‘have to climb.’

Focus on each step instead.

I can moan about 50-something subscribers I have on my YouTube channel, or my content not getting seen and appreciated enough. Not enough views/likes/comments. The algorithm hates me. How depressing… right?

Wrong.

Two months ago, the idea of going on YouTube would most likely give me a panic attack.

My books are still not on the bestseller list. Bummer. That’s definitely something to be frustrated about… right?

Wrong.

Tell that to the younger version of me who dreamed of writing books but never really believed it was possible… (until she finally did).

I took that step. And another one. And then another one.

I keep taking those steps every day, no matter what.

I decided to focus on my growth this year. I’m determined — when it comes to end of 2023 — to be a VERY different person to who I was at the start of the year. Is it because I was a “not-good-enough” person? Nope. It’s because I’m ALIVE and that means I’m changing, growing, and I want to experience this life to the maximum. I want to see what I can do. Or what I can learn to do. Or at least what I can try to learn to do.

See what I’m hinting at? It’s not about the result. It’s about the process.

Your life is what you are experiencing right now. What you’re doing/trying/learning/failing/succeeding at. Now. As you live it.

And this is what you should focus on.

Not the obituary someone else will read when it’s too late for you to add or change anything.