In today's episode I reflect on the year I've had as I turn 27 on July 25th!
This last year has actually been one of the smoothest years I've had since graduating college even though I had a traumatic injury in the beginning of 2022! I knew this was no coincidence and decided to look back on the last 365 days and ask myself "why was this year different?"
See if you've heard my story you know that typically the biggest struggles and challenges I've been working through since turning 23 have been mental and emotional challenges.
Whether that be a break up with a girlfriend, my parents divorce, going to therapy, gym drama back when I worked at a CrossFit gym and I always seemed to have a dark period of the year but this year I felt like I never crossed into the darkness; even though I had good reason to go there.
Before I go into what could've been the bad I reflected on the podcast about all the good changes I made this year and how they contributed to such a positive 365 days:
-I moved into a place with an old friend and was closer to all my other friends and family
-I started training friends and family in person and built a community
-I got into the healthiest relationship I've ever been in
-I continued to grow mentally and business wise
-I didn't allow negative people in my ecosystem
All of these things made for a happy life this year where as in the past some of those positives were flipped and on the negative aspects of my life.
What's cool to see is that this year I could've easily allowed something that happened to make this year a "bad" one, when I got injured on trail for a soccer team I could've easily let this injury ruin my year.
The reason I believe I didn't let this injury hinder my year was because since the age of 23 I have been working on handling my emotions and my mindset through the struggles I had to go through. And I believe that those 4 years of struggle prepared me for the physical and mental battle I'm going through with my injury.
That means that all those year were worth it!
I share this message to encourage you to take some time and reflect on your last 365 days.
What went well?
What didn't go well?
What surprised you this year?
Did you make progress, stay the same, or go backwards?
All these questions are useful for you to be able to connect the dots of why each event that happened in your life happened for a reason. But you can only connect the dots looking backwards, and once you can see what happened in your past you can set yourself up better for the future!
I hope you enjoy the podcast!
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