Becoming Intentionally Me

Have you ever just sat there and thought, “I am NOT doing what makes me happy…”?  Whether that be in your personal or professional life, or both?  I know I have, many times over my 42 years.  Why do we yield to the wants or demands of others, instead of our own wants and dreams?  Thousands of reasons can lead us to where we are now, and not where we’ve wanted to be in our lives.  It’s usually not a simple answer.  I think though, the most important thing we can do for ourselves now, is recognize that we need to make a change.  You may not even know which, or how many changes you need to make, but you can feel it in your gut.  Your inner monologue is telling you, “I cannot continue to live this way, or I will have too many regrets at the end of my life.”  I know that can be a heavy thought; thinking about the end of our lives.  But for some, it comes way faster than it should, by way of tragedy or illness.  I have lost someone close to me who did not live to their 39th birthday due to COVID; and a parent at only 74 years of age due to a failing body.  Both of them I lost within months of each other.  On one hand, you can see where one did not live long enough to have those old age regrets, and was robbed of his future.  The other, I saw live out her last years with many regrets of things not done that she told me about.