Lessons I have Learned

This day marks my 30th year of life

Here are some of the more important things that I have learnt along the way:

1. No amount of money is as valuable as your life.

Never work in a job long-term if it doesn't make you happy. You may get more money, but you're selling life that you will never get back. At the end of your life, you would pay every cent you had to relive this day. Make it count.

2. Trust animals to always give you pure, divine guidance.

If I am ever needing guidance on how I should be living my life and what is most important, I look to animals as my teachers.

Life is simple, but we as humans tend to make it complicated. The value of laying in the sun and feeling the breeze is far greater than material success.

3. Be grateful every day for what you have, and try not to focus on what you want.

It's good to have ambitions and goals, but if you focus too hard on what you don't yet have, you tend to take what you do have forgranted.

4. Live as many different lives as you want.

Everything you want to do, do it. Even if that means uprooting everything you know or leaving everything or everyone that make up your comfort zone. Live the lives you want so you don't miss out on them.

5. Listen to the Universe.

If something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. If you feel like you need change, change. If you follow your intuition, gifted to you by the Universe, you will be given everything you need, and unveil the life you were meant to live.

6. Grieve your loved ones passing but don't think they are gone.

They leave their physical body, but their energy becomes a part of nature, and is felt everywhere. Don't miss out on feeling their energy because of grief.

7. Look for magic.

There are times when your soul alights and you're flooded with divine joy.

Seek out those moments, they are the meaning of life.

8. Connect deeply with nature.

Nothing takes you back to who you're supposed to be like nature does.

We are a part of nature. Separating from it for too long is unnatural; we should spend our lives amongst it.

9. Be open-minded.

Let go of judgements; hold your own space but don't be afraid to observe from every other perspective as well. Everyone has a story, everyone is living life based on their own experiences and operant conditioning. The more open-minded you are, the more connected to others you will be, the less you will be bothered by negative experiences, and the more your positive energy will flourish.

10. Be your own best friend.

If you have your own back, you will never need anyone else's support for you to be happy. Who could have more in common with you and understand your thoughts and feelings, than yourself?

Even if the whole world was against you, you would never feel alone.

One last piece of advice,

Grab a piece of paper and start writing down all of the things you want to do in this lifetime- from the tiny, seemingly unimportant things to the monumental or life changing, then start making them happen. Life will pass you by if you let it. Create your own happiness and go after everything you desire. The universe will always support you when you envelop yourself in that which makes you feel alive.