Envision the future you that you want to become and then reverse engineer what that transformation could look like, breaking it down into small steps and starting with the ones that are easiest for you to do right now. it’s much less overwhelming to accept that you don’t have to do everything at once! And as you start to accomplish little things, brick by brick, you can feel better about yourself and see it as proof that you are in fact capable of improving! Reward yourself for hitting certain milestones.
Change can and will be scary and that’s a good thing because it means you’re leaving the familiarity of your comfort zone. Best of luck!!
Keyword being small. No need to push yourself too much, just a little. Small enough that you're ready, and doing it willingly. It adds up over time, and soon you'll notice an improvement. This is a note to self, but I hope it helps you too, stranger!
Today I was talking to something of a life coach, kind of a group mentorship session I attended, and one thing stuck with me. I was told that sometimes, we see the step we need to take towards actualizing our dreams, but we often worry or grow fearful of how our future self might mess up the opportunity, or fail, or disappoint. And the advice I was given, was to simply put some trust in your future self. Trust that the version of you after you take that initial step will have more passion, more experience, more dedication, and especially, will have the capability to solve whatever problems may arise at said point in the future. As someone who deals with thinking too far ahead and contemplating the bad outcomes, that was immense advice. Just trust who you are going to become to do what is needed and move forward. hope that helps!
It won't happen over night. You'll need to chose what you value and make incremental changes in line with that value—discarding habits and behaviors that don't fit and replacing them with ones that do. These are small things. And you don't add another until the first is second nature. Do this humbly and quietly. Then one day you'll look up to find you are changed.
My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌
