Hello and welcome to my Toasty Garden Blog. Here it is, my first post. First I just want to say congrats! We all made it through another week. And I am so proud of each and every one of you. I want to focus this week on not taking life so seriously. Over the next few weeks you will all learn about me and my journey to self acceptance and fulfillment. I also want to keep this blog light and fun. Some weeks I will talk about self-love and my journey, other times I want to focus on shopping hauls, recipes, seasonal topics, and more! Feel free to leave me a suggestion. One of the first steps I took to get where I am today was to stop taking everything and everyone so seriously!
I am a sensitive and emotional person. Always worrying about what other people think of me, constantly in a battle of feeling like what I did was not enough. I realized one day that the only opinion that actually mattered was my own. If I could somehow change my perspective on life and on myself, I would be able to stop caring about these things and even change how my life was going. As humans we are so afraid of failure. But in the big picture the real failure is not even trying. Who cares if you fail? The fact that you got up and did what most people would be too afraid to do means you succeeded. I grew up in New York and I lived there for 24 years. Nobody in my family ever left. We all lived one mile from eachother. My heart was yearning for something more. I wanted to grow and be someone I loved. I decided after losing my job to save up as much money as possible and move to Colorado. I had people left and right telling me "You'll be back." "You'll never make it.". But I did make it. I trusted myself, tuned out the backlash, and did what I knew would help me find my soul. For once in my life, I stopped listening to all the noise, I stopped taking everyone and everything so serioulsy, and I followed my dream. Now here I am, in love with myself and who I've become. And those who doubted me, suddenly wanted to follow my path and be around me.
We can't sulk in the past or worry about the future. We need to live in the NOW. Keeping such a positive mindset and following your heart goes a long way. It's easier said than done, but we need to do what WE think is best for us, not what OTHERS say is best for us. Teaching my brain to have this new positive mindset was not easy. It took me weeks, even months, to bring myself out of this darkness I created around me. When we think positively and keep the energy around us positive, good things happen to and for us. Everything is energy and if we keep ours positive it will only attract positive things, people and places. Don't be afraid to cut toxic ties to the people who aren't serving your life in a positive way. If something is meant to be in your life it will. Trust your gut! We are only given less than 100 years on this planet, we need to spend it doing the things we love, surrounded by the people that make us feel loved.
I hope you all have the best week ever! Remember to leave a comment if you have a suggestion or a topic you'd like me to cover next week. I decided to keep this post pretty short and to the point. Can't wait for next week! Thanks for coming to this weeks Garden Chat!
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