1. If despite my best efforts you don’t like me, I’m still okay.
What a sad life it would be to care what others thought of me. If I treat someone well and they still don’t like me, I’m perfectly fine. I can spend my life trying to conform to what others want me to be or I can live my life…I choose the latter.
Learning this lesson many years ago and accepting that I don’t care to please everyone has lifted more weight than anything else on this list. What an incredibly freeing feeling.
I urge you to ask yourself why you care what others think of you. YOU define YOU. Be confident in the person you are and live the life you choose.
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Hi, I'm Kristin. I am a feisty and frugal 30-something with a love for travel and adventure. My younger self pursued a career as an attorney, hated the practice of law and found myself unemployed during the Great Recession. Just bloody awesome. So I decided to take control and follow my true passions: traveling, writing (aka I’m not a millionaire), and making the world just a little bit smaller by encouraging other non-millionaires to travel to their heart’s content. My website www.abroadawakening.com/ and books (available on amazon.com under “abroad awakening) are dedicated to this cause.
In my spare time, wait….what spare time? Let me try that again….I spend all my time working my day job, enhancing and growing Abroad Awakening, traveling (obviously), and spending time with my husband and two four legged children: Scout and Mose (don’t ask). We live a simple life, explore the world, and always seek new experiences and challenges. I have been truly blessed.