This year I made a BIG decision. I decided to give up my successful 10 year career in banking to go travel the world. I was lucky, I found two other girls willing to do the same, willing to give up everything to go on this journey together. This type opportunity was once in a lifetime, and was one I could NOT refuse.
If you are unhappy about something, change it, or change your perspective on it. If something or someone stresses you out, stop doing it or stop hanging around them. If you hate your job, stop complaining about it and get anther one, or change your perspective on it.
Changing your perspective, challenging yourself, and stepping outside your box breaks down barriers allowing new energies to form and grow. And that's what changes your life!
We all have this capability within us, and the answer is not far, not in a far away land or in a new designer purse or new pair of boots. The answer is not even a foot away, the answer is YOU.
Will I ever travel again? Damn right! But my intention will be different. Sharing life with my family and friends is what I've learned brings value and happiness to me in my life. And traveling with them will only be the icing on the cake! :)
So off we go. Thailand for a month. Vietnam for three weeks. Cambodia for a few days. Bali for a month. My life is just SO awesome, right?! I just have it so good, right? I am just SOOOO lucky!!
Don't be so quick to judge. It's quite easy to assume other's situations are amazing, great, terrible, etc. But looking from the outside in, it's merely your illusion of how you assume their life is based on your reality. Just because someone is traveling the world doesn't mean they're the happiest person in the world and have it the best, and just because someone is poor and has dirty clothes doesn't mean they're unhappy or have it the worst, either. I think studies have been done that have proven those with less are actually, happier.
Don't get me wrong, I am very blessed, and am very lucky to have traveled to all the places I have traveled to. But as of now, I think I'm over it. For the longest time I think I was searching. For what I didn't know exactly, but I just knew going to these exotic places would help round out, or fill in rather, all the gaps I was feeling inside, right? That these places had the answer! Little did I know these places helped ME find the answer.
Don't be so quick to judge. It's quite easy to assume other's situations are amazing, great, terrible, etc. But looking from the outside in, it's merely your illusion of how you assume their life is based on your reality. Just because someone is traveling the world doesn't mean they're the happiest person in the world and have it the best, and just because someone is poor and has dirty clothes doesn't mean they're unhappy or have it the worst, either. I think studies have been done that have proven those with less are actually, happier.
Don't get me wrong, I am very blessed, and am very lucky to have traveled to all the places I have traveled to. But as of now, I think I'm over it. For the longest time I think I was searching. For what I didn't know exactly, but I just knew going to these exotic places would help round out, or fill in rather, all the gaps I was feeling inside, right? That these places had the answer! Little did I know these places helped ME find the answer.
The answer is not anywhere "out there." I had to learn that I had the power, for everything. For success, happiness, for love, strength, courage, all of this lies within me, within you, too. Sometimes you have to get to a point of total confusion and delusion to realize that YOU are the only one who has the power to change your life.
If you are unhappy about something, change it, or change your perspective on it. If something or someone stresses you out, stop doing it or stop hanging around them. If you hate your job, stop complaining about it and get anther one, or change your perspective on it.
Changing your perspective, challenging yourself, and stepping outside your box breaks down barriers allowing new energies to form and grow. And that's what changes your life!
We all have this capability within us, and the answer is not far, not in a far away land or in a new designer purse or new pair of boots. The answer is not even a foot away, the answer is YOU.
Will I ever travel again? Damn right! But my intention will be different. Sharing life with my family and friends is what I've learned brings value and happiness to me in my life. And traveling with them will only be the icing on the cake! :)
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