Reflect on your journey:

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Reflect on your journey.

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Stop.

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Pause.

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Take some time for yourself.

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Think about your past. 

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All those negative and positive experiences that got you to this moment.

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What can you learn from it?

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A lot.

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Why are you the way you are?

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Why do you have the beliefs you have?

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Why do you have the fears you have?

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Did it come from your parents?

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Your environment?

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Your friends?

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Your role models?

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Figure it out.

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No one else can answer it for you.

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You have to do the hard work yourself.

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You can write.

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You can talk to someone or you can express it through creating something.

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There are many ways to understand it, but you have to do the work.

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You have to reflect on your journey.

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How are you supposed to know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve come from?

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Let me tell you something though, it’s fucking hard.

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It’s hard confronting your inner demons.

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Your inner negative thoughts telling you you’re not good enough and never will be.

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Your parents' voices in your head telling you you’re making a mistake.

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Look at those thoughts, process it and let it go.

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Do not let your past dictate your future.

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Stop letting you hold yourself back from accomplishing your dreams.

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All those doubts, fears and insecurities in your mind are just that - in your mind.

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They don’t exist in reality.

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Look at them, understand where they come from and let them go.

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Meditation personally helped me do that.

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But I didn’t see results for years.

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Years of pretending I was meditating.

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Spending 10 minutes a night before bed believing I was getting better.

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But it wasn’t until recently that things started to click.

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Writing has also helped me, particularly journaling.

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This writing I’m doing is for a number of reasons, but one of them is to process my own thoughts.

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To understand my own mind and write about my past hoping that it helps me and others learn something about themselves.

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Even after 1200+ days of journaling and 600+ blog posts, I still need to reflect on a lot.

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There’s still parts of my mind and past I’m afraid to confront.

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I’m still scared of doing the work, even after years of progress.

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All good, stick at it.

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No one will be there throughout the journey, but doing the work to reflect on your life is always worth it.

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Reflect on your journey.

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