recalibrating success 🤍✨

I was sold this image, like many others, that success is what you own in life and how you prepare yourself for the end monetarily.

Over the years, I have slowly unraveled from needing my life to look a certain way, and started exploring more about how I want to feel in it.

But before I could really figure that out, I needed to let go and create space before I could welcome anything in! 🤍✨

Before I could welcome myself, I needed to take a step back from others and let go of the roles, beliefs, and patterns I was living in. So much of who I thought I was had been shaped unconsciously — whether inherited, absorbed, or expected... 💔

So, I created space. A lot of it.

Space to actually choose. Space to listen. Space to feel what is true for me!

Beyond the noise, beyond the image, beyond the “this is what success should look like"... 🫠

Because I don’t want a life that just looks good from the outside… I want one that feels aligned on the inside!

I’ve always had this quiet, nagging feeling in me...

Does it really matter what anyone does?

I mean... as long as we aren’t harming anyone and we are in (as the Andeans would say) “right relation” with all or working on that... does it matter?

Which brings me to something that has been coming to my attention lately since getting Facebook back — after a year and a half of only being on here. 🤍💛

And as I did, I started to notice how easily people attack each other. Shame, belittle, tear down... especially when it comes to beliefs.

And I caught myself feeling frustrated… even judgmental of it.

Which made me pause...

Because if I’m saying kindness and compassion matter most… then that has to include the people who aren’t being kind too.

That doesn’t mean I agree...

It doesn’t mean I don’t feel it...

Buuut it made me reflect on how easy it is to slip into the same energy we’re reacting to! LOL.

When did we get so attached to our beliefs that they dictate who we can love?

Why can’t we hold our beliefs AND hold each other… without needing to make someone wrong?

I saw a conversation around religion and science, and both sides were being so hurtful. And all I could think was:

No matter what you believe… if it isn’t reflected in how you treat people, then what is the point?

You’re not exactly embodying your truth by being the opposite of it… just saying… lol 🤍

And honestly, so many times I wanted to jump in and say something… but instead, I just observed. And reflected.

Because this isn’t about being “right.”

It’s about who we are being.

So what point am I trying to wrap up here? 😂 lol

This:

Unknown Artist 🤍✨

It doesn’t matter to me what ladder of success you’ve climbed, what you own, what you believe in, or what box you fit into...

If it’s not grounded in love, or at least a willingness to move toward it… it just doesn’t land the same with me. 🤍❤️

What matters to me more than any of that is:

WHO WE ARE & HOW WE SHOW UP 🤍⭐

And that’s exactly why I’ve been disentangling, dismantling, and unplugging from everything I was in before.

Not to become someone new… but to consciously choose who I already feel I am underneath it all.

To build trust with myself. To create safety within. To get clear on how I want to show up in this world — not by default, but by choice! 🤍

So right now, I let everything settle...

I let myself land! ❤️

I come back to the simple pieces of life that make me feel alive again! ⭐

Because at the end of the day… and in the end of being in this body... who I am is what I take with me!

And that, to me, is success!!! 🤍❤️⭐

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