Creating Happiness

This week, I’ve been sharing my story of how I got here.

I always find it immensely easier to share the “before” moments, the time when it seemed to all fall apart.

Maybe it’s my Christian background that prides itself in being humble.

Ironic.

Anyways… every time it gets to the part where I totally turned my life into something I love, I don’t know HOW to say it.

I stall.

I end up diverting the attention from myself, but not actually saying what I did.

Here’s the juicy truth…

No one came to save me.

I just did the work.

And that work eventually got me to this fairytale life that I LOVE.

So, I’m just going to tell you what I did…

I woke up each day and I showed up again.

I stopped waiting for someone to rescue me.

I stopped blaming my past, my brain, my parents, ex-boyfriends, jobs, depression, OCD, my friends, my dog….

And I decided that whatever was going to happen, was going to be because I chose it.

I also knew that for me, the internal was just as important as the external.

I didn’t just want to look successful, I wanted to actually be happy.

I heard too many stories of people who seemed like they had it all, but were dead on the inside.

And in many ways, I had lived through that too.

But I also had big dreams and I wasn’t willing to give up on those either.

I sold myself on the idea that I could accomplish all that I desired in this lifetime AND do it from a place of inner peace.

That true success could happen from self love, trust, and leadership.

That self neglect, burn out, and chronic stress did not have to be part of the formula.

And THAT is how I’ve created my own fairytale life. THAT ^ is what I have been proving to myself ever since.

THAT is how a girl on the verge of giving up for good became the one who cries tears of joy driving down the highway, amazed at the life she has created.

From my heart to yours, keep going, become someone you trust, and stop neglecting your own needs… YOU MATTER!

xoxo Kas