The Sooner You Know, The Better: Dear Teens and Twentysomethings, It's Time to Fully Face Your Fears About the Future & Embrace Who You Are
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The Sooner You Know, The Better: Dear Teens and Twentysomethings, It's Time to Fully Face Your Fears About the Future & Embrace Who You Are
No more running, allowing ourselves to feel our emotions is not optional if we want to live a healthy life.
if I never tried, I figured I’d never fail.
Give yourself some empathy if the result didn’t quite match up with your good intention. It happens.
If we never listen to what our heart is trying to tell us, we’ll spend our lives doing what we think we should do, what everyone else is doing, or what everyone is telling us we should do. Autopilot will leave you on your deathbed with regrets, pits of unfulfilled dreams, and wishing you’d experienced more joy.
When you look back at your past and begin to feel shame, stress, or anxiety, ask yourself, “What did that version of me not know yet?” That version of you was different from the current you. Sometimes we just need to cut ourselves some slack and stop feeling shame for the things we did that helped us learn the hard way.
You’re told “high school and college are supposed to be the best times of your life.” Said who? When did we decide on that? Because I sure as hell know I wasn’t a part of that meeting. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve found many young people are really sick of people telling them this is supposed to be the best time of their life.
Meditation is about creating just a few moments of stillness to break that autopilot cycle. Stillness, not nothingness.
I’ve learned that a good public speaker conveys their personal story in a way that doesn’t make them the main character; it makes their listeners the main character. You want the audience to see themselves in your story.
I feel anxiety often, but I, myself, am not anxiety – anxiety is just something I feel. I am not anxious; I just feel anxious. The phrasing is key.