As September is around the corner, everyone realizes the year is ending, time to review the resolutions and catch up with what you still seem to have time to accomplish. Looking back, this year wasn't so much different from 2020, but I feel good.
Since I moved to Stockholm, I've been living a collection of first times, putting myself in vulnerable situations, uncomfortable positions, but hey, that's what it means to start a life in a new place, right? As everything was new, these past few years made me make fundamental changes to chase my dreams: therefore, there's only one logical direction in which to go: forward. Although, I had more ups and downs than a Crossfit professional doing squats.
I have always seen myself as more pessimist than an optimist, but this year also showed me that I am genuinely optimistic. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general, especially thinking that certain things only happen to them. Remember that everyone is constantly anxious, happy, worried, angry, or sad about something, so don't fool yourself. Although a consistently negative mental attitude is a state.
The idea of good and bad will always exist, but we must break the perfect life and happy endings ideas we were raised to believe. Being negative or positive reflects on how my emotions flow in my day, which helped me realize that the balance between positive and negative I live is normal.
However, I'm calling myself optimistic because my years are always good between the good and bad days. There are great years, but never a bad one. It's just too much time to see it as something negative. Your thoughts create your life. You need to force yourself to think positive sometimes.
Therefore, with the year ending, more profound reflections start popping in my head if somethings were left on the way. Let's set realistic goals for the rest of this year together? Be honest and write it down:
Something to start or try for the first time
Something to stop and don't take to the next
Something you should continue (that you started this year)
Something you should try to do more (try it 2x month)
Something you should try to do less (once a month only)
Remember:
🟠 #INTERNETFINDS; some things will never get old to inspire.
Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame ➞ In a brave talk, she takes a hard look at our online culture of humiliation and asks for a different way.
Dylan Marron: Empathy is not an endorsement ➞ How sometimes the most subversive thing you can do is actually speak with people you disagree with, not simply at them.
Yes, Theory meets Iceman➞ The amazing work of Wim Hof of how to deal with discomfort.
My Favorite Lime Pie Recipe ➞ An easy and delicious recipe to try this weekend.
*NSYNC - I Want You Back ➞ A flashback worth watching for you to feel old.
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