Isn’t it crazy how fast time goes? It feels like just yesterday I was writing about leaving home and now I’m trying to figure out what to do next. My video recaps my journey here in LA and what I plan to do next!
So this is a story all about how… click here to watch the video!
Everyone says the journey is better than the destination, and I too have had many similar experiences, but this is not one of them. The drive across country was awesome, but the destination was just as amazing. It was a great validation to all that I believe but had yet to test–fear is a liar.
2017 was going to be the year of no more excuses, and I started it the best way I knew how–road trippin! Don’t get it twisted though, I didn’t have a perfectly depicted plan. I honestly didn’t even know what day or how I was leaving until a week before. I had plenty of supporters, but I also had those infamous people who told me I was unprepared, unrealistic, underestimating, UNSOMETHING OR OTHER and so on. I understand though, cuz hey, I kinda was just winging it……because that’s how I wanted to go about it.
Situations are as big as you allow them to be. I didn’t want a big dramatic goodbye where we all tell stories as if I’m going to the grave. I just wanted to go and do and then call people and tell um about it. I took Jen Scincero’s advice of ‘what if’. What if I just drove there? What if I just went without a job? What if? I wanted to down play it, make it smaller, more manageable so that I wouldn’t overthink it and end up having my mind talk me out of it **key**. The truth is there’s no right way, no perfect time, no secret formula; it’s about doing and doing what works for you. My plan might not have been by the book, but it certainly was by my book.
I want to live a life by design, not by default and the only one who can put that into play is myself. You only get one life, don’t live it based on other people’s rules. The worst phrase on the planet? “That’s just the way life is.” No, that’s how you allow it to be.
Dream big and kick fear in the face.
Till next time,
Lauren