Taylor Swift is showing us:
We should do it our way
People respect vulnerability
As we age we become refined
We are more creative in pain than in triumph
Time away allows us to view our work from a different perspective
I don’t know about you but I’m enjoying “Taylor’s version” very much.
Replace “Fear of missing out” with “Joy of missing out” and a next level mindset shift happens.
We begin to choose ourselves.
Happiness flows from there.
Have you ever looked at a 10-year olds room? Do you remember yours at that age?
It’s messy. It’s sloppy. It’s disorganized. It can be disgusting.
Because they are 10. They have bigger priorities than keeping their room tidy.
Some days I look at the blogs I’ve written and I say, “I wrote that!”
Other days I say, “I wrote that?”
We can be our biggest cheerleader or our worst critic.
Don’t underestimate the power of reflection. The 2015 version of you probably went through some shit to help make you the person you are today.
Embrace that, don’t suppress it.
Be okay with asking “Why?” and sitting with that answer for a bit.
I used to never want to celebrate my birthday. I was shy and didn’t like the attention. Part of it was growing up a middle child and never feeling like I fit in. Part of it was that I felt awkward and uncomfortable in the limelight.
But there was a part of me that wanted the attention, that craved it because I never felt I had any. It’s a weird paradox.
Most relationships don’t end later on down the line like it appears they do. Generally, when a relationship ends it was going sideways for a long time before.
Our world wants big and bold and lavish lifestyles. We see it all over mainstream media. The “keeping up with the Joneses” ideals seem real. That’s at least the stories we were told growing up.