I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I’m quickly approaching the dreaded 40 age tag but over the last couple of years I’ve really started to evaluate where I am in life and more importantly, who I am.

I have spent many years focusing on my career and always evaluated my success based on where I was in terms of career. About 12 months ago I came to the realisation that perhaps my thinking on success had been all wrong. I no longer focus on where I thought I’d be or how much money I would have by a certain age and it’s been for the most part taken quite a weight off my shoulders.

Last week while on holidays I was walking with my partner on a 2 hour hike, for a quite some time neither of us spoke, we were just enjoying the nature around us and I got to thinking about my life and suddenly I asked a question of myself. Do I like me? For whatever reason, I had to think long and hard about it and to be honest, I still am.

I discovered that there are things about me that I don’t like, how frustrating! I thought that with my recent path of self discovery that it would bring me an inner peace and resolve.

So with this new piece of information I am now left with many more questions but it has explained a few things. For one, I haven’t been exercising or worrying about my diet all that much.
This kind of makes sense when I think about it. If you don’t like who you are or at least some part of you, then why bother caring for yourself? Don’t get me wrong, I am by no means an emotional eater. I pretty much stick to breakfast, lunch and dinner and try not to eat fatty foods. I’m still conscious of the need to eat a fairly healthy diet but I could do better. No exercising is a problem though, my motivation levels are low…..really low!

I don’t have all the answers and have no real idea how I am going to go about truly liking myself but I will share this new journey with you all and maybe some of you can share your thoughts on this subject as well, if you feel the same way :-)
And if you are one of those people who has worked it all out and wants to share your wisdom, please do!


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