Ambition really is catchy. Kinda like a good version of the chicken pox but without the spots and uncomfortable itching. Actually, I am so wrong- there is itching. Itching to chase new adventures and stretch your abilities to see exactly what you are capable of...
I sat down for dinner with a beautiful friend (who we shall call Cardi Kim), a total mastermind in the marketing world and #bossbabe mind you. And what happened? I sat there in admiration of her self-love and felt warm, fuzzy, inspiration.
At the start of the year, Cardi Kim writes down 5 key areas of her life on a piece of paper - Career, Health, Wealth, Adventure, and Heart (friends/family)
In each category, she dot points her short term goals for those areas. Such as what she wants to improve on, achieve, what she wants to do differently, focus more time on etc. One of her goals under heart was to make more time to see friends she doesn't get to see that often. Her, me, little Thai restaurant - tick ✔ (So ghetto for Cardi Kim.) At each three month mark, she checks back to her list to check in with what's working and what needs her attention next. My conversation with her fed me more than my meal, which was served to me cold. It made me think about what I wanted in those areas and the small improvements I could make to balance the harmony in my life. It's watching others support themselves like this that is so inspiring. It's watching others back themselves like this that gains so much of my respect, I can't help but just want to copy! We never run out of opportunities to improve ourselves.
I've learnt that if you want something that will improve your happiness you owe it to yourself to go get it, no one is going to do it for you.
Like the modern day fairy tales where the princess doesn't wait for someone to come along and rescue her, instead, she rescues herself. Just like my friend Cardi Kim
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