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How to Create a Life You Can Be Happy With (Even When It’s Not the Perfect Picture in Your Head)
On Monday of last week, Aaron and I re-committed to getting up at 5am each morning so that we’d have the time it takes to work on ourselves.
I know that probably sounds like nothing more than a bummer at the very least — and like complete craziness at the other end.
But crazy or not, it’s what we’ve decided to do, and here’s why:
We both have a lot of dreams and goals — some shared, and some individual. We both want more for ourselves than the lives we’re currently living and the situations we’re currently in.
Our lives aren’t bad in any sense, but we both know they could be better. We both know they could be the lives we actually want to create — the ones we don’t whine about and don’t take as many vacations from as we can. We want to take vacations because we want to — not because we’re trying to escape our “normal” daily existence.
We want to create a life (and a lifestyle) that we are excited to wake up for every day — one that brings us joy, satisfaction and fulfillment.
We’re not quite there right now, and that’s okay. We don’t need to be.
