One day, when sitting out in my garden and drinking my milkshake, I came to realize that: “This is the way I want to live”.
Sitting in my quite garden, full of peace and doing whatever I feel like.
Now, I can’t imagine this being comfortable in the long run, but it was the feeling of having no one telling me what to do and when to do it that hit me.
In the moment, I felt free.
I felt present.
I felt undefeatable and invincible.
It was a really powerful feeling.
A feeling I’ve never felt before.
A feeling of hope.
On that day, I decided to marry myself.
Yes, you read that correctly.
I married myself.
Not in a church.
Without a celebration.
Just simply by saying to myself, “I will do whatever it takes to always make the right choices for myself”.
No one knew about this until now.
After hearing about it for the first time in a book I read, I decided to commit to myself.
I decided to always put me before everything and everyone else.
I realize this sounds very selfish but to be honest, isn’t that what caring for yourself actually mean?
Putting yourself in front of everyone else.
And when doing so I gained control of myself.
I, for once, was the one making my decisions myself, that actually benefited me.
I made all my decisions based on what I wanted.
An important thing to know about prioritizing yourself is that all your relationships improve.
You get closer to the people you’re already close to.
Because when you have yourself under control and aligned to the right path, you can truly focus on other people as well.
And they get to know the real version of you.
Isn’t this a big win-win scenario for everyone?
Feeling like I was in full control of myself and basing all decisions on what is best for me, everything started to go my way.
I started seeing results from working out.
I started seeing a great improvement on my sleep.
I had a lot more energy.
But most importantly, I started taking action.
I acted on my to-do list and stopped postponing it for tomorrow.
I worked out regularly and pushing myself to always improve.
I stopped coming up with bullshit excuses to myself and became healthier.
I realized that telling the truth is what was going to take me places I wanted to go to.
Literally and spiritually.
Finally, I stopped giving a crap about what others felt or thought of me.
I was being me.
And then, with everything aligned to me, I acted on my biggest dream of them all.
Starting a business and pursuing a life where I decided the route.
I had taken on the world with full control of myself and without anyone being able to stop me.
Wouldn’t you want to do the same thing for yourself?