open your eyes.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

What have you done today, this month, or even this year that is going to help create the best version of yourself?  Your ultimate image of who you desire to become.

For a long time, I did nothing.  I wouldn’t consider what I was doing even to be living.  My routined life was going to be the death of me.  I worked at the same job, ate the same foods at the same time, lived in the same place my entire life, had the same job, etc….I had accepted that this was going to be my life for the next 20-30 years.

But why?

I had dreams of experiencing new things, traveling, having different jobs, living a whole different life than what I was.  But it was only a dream, and nothing more.  At that point of time, I couldn’t fathom anything outside my structured, comfortable, expected life.

Well fuck. That sounds awful, doesn’t it?  I am 25 years old and I was already dead.  I had become a robot to my life…and the worse part about it was I was surrendering to it.

There finally came a point in my life where I realized that this isn’t what I wanted and that my dreams didn’t have to be dreams.  They could be my life and the only person stopping me, was me.

So, where do I go from here?  Honestly, after I realized all this, thats when the hard work started.  For most of my life, I was a people pleaser who was worried to upset the ones in my life.  I would put myself and my thoughts on the back burner.  I had to change my mind set on how I viewed myself and my life.

For months I had to search for myself.  who was i?  who did I want to become?  Where do I start?  

I wanted to surround myself with new like minded people, and thats where I joined my crossfit gym.  I changed my living situations.  I started applying to jobs all over the country in pursuits of my dream job.  I started creating the life I had always daydreamed about.

And now months later here I am.  I have had interviews all over the country for jobs I could only dream of.  I have plans to move across the country in the next few weeks.  I have traveled, for the first time, alone.  I have met positive and inspiring people along the way.  I have finally broke the pattern of my robot life.  The best part?  This is literally just the beginning.

I have never had so much passion about living.  I encourage you to get outside of your comfort zone because life has so much more to offer.  Honestly, I feel lucky to have realized this so young.  This is just my beginning and I can’t wait to see where it takes.

Don’t let yourself become dead before you die.

xoxo.