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these are a few of my favorite things…

i was supposed to be a teacher; it’s what i studied in college, so i expected that after i graduated i’d get a job as a teacher. only i didn’t and by not getting the thing i really wanted (or rather, the thing i was settling for), i had to search for what i really wanted. 

letting go of expectations revealed that i was really hanging on too tight to what i was ‘supposed to do’.

…believing in myself had been difficult because i believed i was meant to do one thing and pinned all my value and hope onto that. the moment (and there were several) i believed i could do anything so long as i tried and could face anything that came my way, my value became intrinsic, that is to say, i accepted external validation without depending on it. i trusted when people complimented me instead of being worried i was deceiving them. i wasn’t ashamed to share my story. i was happy to share all my mistakes and was always pleasantly surprised when someone resonated with my story.

and now i’m able to keep telling everyone how great i am–how much i believed in myself–because i’ve seen how it encourages them to do the same: to believe in themselves.

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