27 and… Taking it One Day at a Time

2 years ago, I was publishing an article about being 25 and… travelling. I still travel, as much as it’s possible at the moment. One of my top goals in life is to travel the world and I’m definitely going to make it happen. I don’t know the when and how yet, but I’m sure it will all unfold when the time is right and in the best possible way for me. I know, I sound super mystical. Bear with me. I’ll get more practical, in the end. I want to share some thoughts that I often ruminate on and that have been visiting my mind in the past week, as well.

Last week, it was my birthday and I was showered with an outstanding amount of love! I received messages and gifts for days from dear people from all over the world. I still receive belated birthday wishes. There’s this echo of love following me :). All throughout the week, I kept thinking how blessed I am to receive so much love!

For the past half a year or so, I have been using a journaling template and I fill out this section every day:

GRATITUDE — 3 things I am grateful for:
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One of the things that comes up most often is my gratitude for being loved. While receiving so much loving energy, I was thinking how amazing it would be to feel this much love every day. But then I thought it would be way too overwhelming to receive so many messages every single day. While I believe that feeling loved is entirely up to us and our level of self-love, I also believe that we can influence how other people feel whether we do it consciously or unconsciously. And we can consciously choose to share the love. And no, we don’t have to tell them we love them every day. But what if we would just think about the people we love and appreciate every single day? Not only on their birthday. Not only when they help us out. Not only when they’re nearby.

What if our thoughts could just send them the loving energy and make them feel loved? What if 10, 20, 100 people thought about the same person every day just for 1 minute and sent all this loving energy towards them? What if we could create such a world where loving thoughts and feelings fill up our minds and words are not really necessary to express the love and appreciation? What if this is what the world needs to overcome some of the biggest challenges we have these days? Yeah, yeah, me and my idealism.

But what if we started doing it to see what happens? I have been observing my reactions and behaviors for quite some time now and one thing that I noticed is that whenever I am in this magical energy of love, I tend to be more kind, more loving even in the smallest daily actions like handling my dirty dishes. I am much more careful and involved and present in doing this little thing. It sounds silly, I know. But it’s what I’ve seen shifting in my life when I feel loved. Imagine what can shift if all of us put more love and care in everything we do. So, how about trying to send loving thoughts at least for 1 minute before we go to sleep every night?

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Alright, I promised I’d be more practical, so moving on from this hangover of love, bliss and gratitude that I’ve been feeling, I’ll get to the less mystical stuff. The first half of 2019 is gone. Before the beginning of the year, I had some goals I wanted to accomplish. I already accomplished some of them and I work every single day to to stay on track. I don’t always manage. But I always do the best I can.

It’s been 6 months and a half with ups and downs, tons of struggles and beautiful accomplishments for me. And I keep thinking about one thing: as independent and self-sufficient as we might think we can be, we are social creatures and we depend on each other. We rely on each other for many things and we evolved to live so much better together. Having a support system is critical for anything we want to do and especially for becoming better people. I realized a while back that part of my purpose in life is to help other people and while I haven’t found “THE WAY” yet, I have found many little ways in which I have helped and contributed to others throughout my life.

Every year, I was fortunate enough to have wonderful friends and family that love me and care for me and give me gifts for my birthday, which is a really wonderful feeling, so I felt compelled to start giving. Last year I started a crowdfunding campaign to pay it forward. This year I had an amazing celebration, I had wonderful people around and I received gifts, again. As important as it is to open ourselves to receive, every time I receive something, I get so grateful, that I start thinking about how I can give back or even better, how I can pay it forward. I’m in this feeling these days again, the feeling of giving. I want to help people with the best I can at this point in time. And this year, I am giving something different.

Most of you have probably given up on most goals that you set for yourselves or you even forgot you set any. Or maybe you didn’t even bother to set any because you know you won’t follow up on them anyway. And I completely understand. I struggled with that, too. I still do, a lot! Which is why what I want to give for my birthday is a support system.

I have been working on becoming the greatest version of myself for a few years now. Consciously. Looking back, that’s what I’ve been doing my whole life. Trying to be better in whatever I did. In the last few years, I have been building consistent habits that bring me closer to the person I want to become. I keep track of all the habits I do, I use tools and apps and I joined a community that supports me in creating healthy habits in my life. And I recently started a ‘One Day at a time’ challenge which has increased the consistency in most of the habits that I have been trying to implement for years.

What we do every single day shapes the person we end up becoming. I want to offer the support you need to achieve the goals and resolutions you’ve been forgetting, postponing or giving up. I want to help you build healthy habits for living the life you imagine. So, if you’ve been struggling and couldn’t find a way to make things happen for yourself, reach out to me. I’ve been struggling, too, so maybe we can find a way together.

I just turned 27 and I started letting go of the pressure. I am slowing down and taking it one day at a time. This and feeling loved have been the game changers in my life for the past 2 months! I am definitely on a challenging journey and I have a long way to go. But the truth is, I’ve never been in a better place and I’ve never felt better than I feel right now…at 27 years old, learning to love it all.. one day at a time.

Originally published on Medium