{"id":1094,"date":"2018-06-15T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T02:25:46","slug":"how-i-turned-my-life-around-with-3-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"How I Turned My Life Around With 3 Steps."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1095\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MeTemple-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MeTemple-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MeTemple-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MeTemple-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MeTemple.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No one ever said it&#8217;s easy, but it can be done. You just have to be persistent and focus on what you really want in life. I have spent way to many days and nights analysing and thinking about what I want to do and how I will get there. It&#8217;s frustrating and it doesn&#8217;t make you feel any good about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay if you don&#8217;t know what you want to do, just do something. I would lie if I said that I don&#8217;t suffer, because I do all the time. I struggle getting out of bed in the morning and I struggle with exercising. Things that people take for granted. What is seen as small steps for you is huge for me. Just getting out off bed in the morning is a big stepping stone. I look at my life and everything that I have achieved and I feel proud, but I also feel nervous about the future. Will I ever be able to do what I have done before or is this how my life will be forever now. \u00a0I&#8217;m stuck in my own body and I&#8217;m stuck in my own life,but we all are&#8230; It&#8217;s what we do with it that counts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>7 years ago I felt the same way as I do today. I used 3 steps to turn my life around. It wasn&#8217;t easy but this is how I did it and this is what I will do now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #939ec4;\">Focus on yourself and write down your dreams and goals\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #939ec4;\"><span style=\"color: #939ec4;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; This sounds easy, but it actually took me 3 months to even figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. For 3 months I was sitting there looking at a blank paper without putting anything down. But then one day it just hit me and I started writing. Looking back at that day makes me smile, because the things I wrote down is reality today. The problem is that we always wan something else when we reach our dreams. I am never happy and I forget to appreciate the beauty of life and what I have achieved.<\/span><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1096\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TempleMe-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TempleMe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TempleMe-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TempleMe-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TempleMe.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #939ec4;\">Stop\u00a0comparing yourself to everyone else &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> I\u00a0know that social media makes it even harder not to\u00a0compare yourself to people. But please stop\u00a0doing that to yourself. The more you compare the more you feel that you are the weird one and that you haven&#8217;t figured things out yet. When I lived in Sweden I keep comparing myself to my friends that decided to have kids, get married and buying a house etc. This was killing me slowly, because I\u00a0felt that I was far behind and that I had to sort my life out asap. However looking back at it today I\u00a0realise that my decision was the right on for me. I don&#8217;t want kids and I wasn&#8217;t ready to get married back then.<\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1099\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temple-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temple-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temple-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temple-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Temple.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #939ec4;\">Do things that is out of your\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><b style=\"color: #939ec4;\">comfort zone &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I started doing\u00a0this I started living. It wasn&#8217;t as scary as I thought it would be. It was\u00a0actually fun and the only thing stoping me was my fear. I was so\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">scared of failing that I avoided doing things. When I left and went to Thailand I started realising that this is what I\u00a0always wanted to do. I slowly started to find myself and started to love myself again. I started mediating and I even stayed with the buddhist\u00a0monks for 1 1\/2 week. This was an amazing\u00a0experience and I wouldn&#8217;t change it for anything. I\u00a0learned so much from the monks and I\u00a0learned\u00a0a lot about myself.\u00a0Unfortunately when you go back to the &#8220;real&#8221; world you can easily loose yourself again. It goes fast to forget everything you\u00a0learned and you will quickly loose yourself.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1097\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOnk-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOnk-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOnk-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOnk-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOnk.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1098\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monk1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monk1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monk1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monk1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dreamsbylinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monk1.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And this is where I am today&#8230; I have forgotten who I am and I have lost myself in a world full of\u00a0expectations of how we should live our lives. I will find my way back, but I know that when you are in the middle of the storm the light feels far away. I know that together we can make it&#8230; Together we are strong. I have done it once before and I can do it again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading. Feel free to provide some feedback or share you thoughts with me.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #939ec4;\">XOXO<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one ever said it&#8217;s easy, but it can be done. You just have to be persistent and focus on what you really want in life. 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