But remember, the ultimate key does not lie in summer itself, but rather in you.

We’re all begging to be our authentic selves 100% of the time; we just usually shove that feeling down in order to “pay the bills.”

Can you remember the last time your inner child came out to play? What about the last time you were able to dance and not care about...

I also think that it’s important to note that for a lot of people this feeling is closely associated with the physical environment, which

More often than not we tend to underestimate how much our environment can hold us down.

A routine life is a stable life. But a renewal has to be deeper than that. Renewals need to break the norm.

I know there are many times I have fallen off my growth, but when I come back to it, I realize I’m a lot farther than I used to be.

Now, I am able to understand that growth is a process, sometimes stop and go, but a process nonetheless.

The truth is, when it comes to “renewal,” I’m a work in progress, and the progress barely started this year.

It really comes down to folding our clothes, clearing off our laundry chairs, and reminding ourselves why we deserve to re-learn focus.

How do I catch myself from drowning in the pool of anxiety? The lingering, dreadful notion that I may never reach my goal?

Just as a photographer sets a scene in a photo, we set the scene in our lives. We choose what we focus on.

I decided to start living mindfully at the beginning of the pandemic, and with that came my realization that I need motivation...

Motivation helps you start, it helps you keep going, but it’s discipline that actually gets you to your goal.

Shortly after making this reacquaintance, and with a mixture of leftover Christmas and birthday money, I began to add to my collection.