It’s been one heck of the year, my friends. Of course, I realize we still have a couple of months to go, but as I’ve been thinking about this a lot, I wanted to take time and share my new revelations with you.

1. I can be great with money. For some reason, I’ve always seen myself as someone who is terrible with money. I know think I used this as an excuse to splurge on unnecessary clothing or too many take-out orders. As you guys probably know by now, we’ve invested into a property earlier this year and well obviously this meant that I needed to get my sh*t together. I thought this was going to be very hard on me, but in reality, my needs are actually pretty minimalistic & I’m so glad to understand I have enough things in my life already.
2. Balance is the key to my happiness. Look, in 27 years I’ve done it all- tried quite a few kinds of sports, went crazy about a vegan diet, quit alcohol for a while, read a whole bunch of self-motivation books and the one thing all these new passions-that-didn’t-stick have taught me is that leading the most perfect life I can make me depressed rather than happy. That doesn’t make any sense, huh? Well, I now realize that life is all about the balance and I try to be aware of this whatever I do. I allow myself to eat junk food and have that extra glass of wine if I want to. Every once in a while I might read a romantic novel or watch the most stupid movie available on Netflix too. I don’t feel like this makes me a bad person anymore, I’ve learned to go with the flow and listen to myself more than ever before without any judgment.
3. I’m bad at keeping in touch. Not sure if this is because I publish personal content online quite often, but I’ve got to admit that I’m the worst when it comes to keeping in touch with old friends. I hope they all know that they’re always welcome to visit me or meet up for a cuppa, but I honestly never express my feelings & love well enough through online messaging.
4. I struggle to live in the moment. The feeling of not living fully enough has been hunting me for years now and I’m doing my best to find peace with my wishes at last. I bet this happens to everyone, but I hate to admit that when I’m at home – I dream of traveling when I travel- I dream of being home. When I have new things to accomplish- I dream of lazy mornings, when I have zero projects on my shoulders- I dream of waking up full of excitement. I guess this is what being a human calls for.
5. There will always be people who don’t like me and I seriously could not give any less fu*ks.

Writing these things down has been pretty therapeutical. Try this for yourself and make sure to leave a link to your post in the comments!