Jan 03 2024 11 mins
Ayo,
Happy new year friends!
It's pretty wild how fast the time passes in life but here we are.
Hope you're all healthy and well and ready for a year of growth and blessings.
For the first episode of the year I wanted to touch on something that I feel is frequently overlooked, especially as a year ends and everyone is planning for how to do more and be better in the next.
I want to talk about recognizing the progress you're making in life and being PROUD of yourself and how far you've come in life.
It's very easy for most of us to focus on the gap between where we are and where we want to be in the future.
We can easily feel like we're not doing enough, we're not good enough, or we're so far behind etc.
But how about for a second we focus on the gap between where we've been and where we are now.
The truth is, if you zoom out far enough you are probably much further ahead than you used to be and you are most likely making a TON more progress than you feel like, as a person, in your mindset and learnings and I'm sure a bunch of other areas for you.
This thought sparked in me the other day when I was looking through my safe for some paperwork on a car I recently bought and I stumbled onto my binder I kept through my time in rehab in 2015.
I spent some time looking through it and was shocked by how much I've grown and changed since then, it was pretty drastic.
This got me thinking, bc if you asked me on a random day I would tell you I feel behind and like I'm not making as much progress as I should be, or I would tell you I'm far from where I want to be in life and I have so much more to do.
Bc most of us are wired to focus on where we're not vs where we are, I think it's important to take the time to look back and acknowledge the progress we have made and are making, otherwise we will just feel like we're never enough and that can be frustrating and discouraging.
The truth is, we're all doing much better than we think even if our lives aren't exactly where we want them to be.
Give yourself credit for where you are, how much you've grown and learned and BE PROUD of yourself!
You deserve it.
Hope something here will be encouraging and inspiring for you.
Please feel free to share this with someone who needs to hear it.
Thanks for taking the time to listen to me, grateful for each one of you.
Talk soon, God bless!
-Kyle
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