Why YOUR journey matters most
With all of this accessibility, it can become easy to feel as if you aren’t doing enough if you aren’t progressing at the speed society tells you that you “should” be..
When I was thinking about this blog post, I was considering dedicating it to suicide awareness week. This is a week that has a soft place in my heart and will always be a cause that I believe continuously deserves important discussions.
But, as I thought further, I realized that the message extends far beyond the awareness of an epidemic. It’s a message of acceptance, understanding, and living in your personal uniqueness. These same indicators are oftentimes the same indicators that will make a person believe that they are not good enough and not worthy of life.
It’s so easy to compare ourselves in the current world we live in. We have statistics telling us where we should be, on a spectrum that compares us to our peers and other generations.
We have social media and the internet to keep our senses constantly stimulated, to the point where it becomes difficult to disconnect and detox.
With all of this accessibility, it can become easy to feel as if you aren’t doing enough if you aren’t progressing at the speed society tells you that you “should” be.
Beloved, it’s all a smoke screen. We are the conductors of our life and the journey it takes to get to a destination can not be measured in quality and quantity equally against others.
You are EXACTLY where you are supposed to be right now. There is not more you “should” be doing, but your best everyday. Somedays, your best is getting out the bed, grooming yourself, eating, and lounging the rest of the day. On others, your best is completing a long list of to-do items.
You are the determinant of what is important.
What you want matters.
What you like matters.
Your journey matters.
You’re one of a kind.
Why is sacrifice necessary for personal success?
Unfortunately, if we want to reach our personal goals, there are some sacrifices we have to make. The big thing is knowing WHICH sacrifices are required to be the most successful. The last thing you want to do is let go of the...
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but sacrifice is imperative if you want to reach your goals. Reading that at first glance sounds pretty daunting. It doesn’t really sound like something I’d be interested in.
But guess what?
There are varying degrees of sacrifice. Sacrifice can be something as little as giving up your daily Starbucks order as a way to save up for a new computer. Sacrifice can be staying home more often than going out, in order to put in the time and energy to learn a new skill. Sacrifice can be choosing to delay having children until you reach a certain goal.
Some sacrifices also include letting go of some people from your life. There are some relationships you have that you love, but you know they hold you back. You know they are not a positive influence on your life and future.
These are the hardest sacrifices to make.
The reason these are the hardest is because we have a connection to them emotionally, most likely mentally, and oftentimes physically when dealing with romantic partners. Those are the hardest ties to break.
Unfortunately, the hardest things to let go of are the exact things that are holding us back from the next phase of our journey.
It’s like an energy exchange.
When we are around unbalanced energy, we will be unbalanced. When we are around balanced energy we are balanced. We will not be able to keep moving forward if we are continuously mingling with unbalanced energies.
It’s basically holding you back.
As you were reading this, you probably had some things and people come to mind, that you may need to part ways with for a while, in order to keep growing.
Only you know what you need to let go of and sacrifice…. and I have faith that you will do just that!