Hello my beautiful people and welcome back to the Moments Podcast. I'm excited to record today.

I had no idea what I wanted to talk about, but I decided to open my journal from last year today.

And I read through a couple of the entries and the things that I wrote and the stories that I wrote and the people that I talked about.

And when I read my old journal entries, it's really easy for me to tell where my head was at.

Like I can tell when I'm writing about something genuinely,

versus when I'm kind of just writing about something to write about it, or I'm trying to fake the fact that I'm not okay and make it seem like I am or vice versa.

I don't know how to explain it. I just obviously, I'm done myself for 22 years. I can tell what's going on when I look back to past versions of myself, but it kind of just got me thinking.

I wish I had a journal from 2021, because then I would really be thinking, but I just want this episode to remind you to check in with yourself every once in a while.

And when I say that, I don't mean check in with your present self, because yes, of course do that. I'm preaching to you to do that all the time, and we always should.

But check in with the past versions of yourself. Like reflect on who you used to be, reflect on the different ways that you're growing, the different ways that you're evolving, the different changes that you've noticed in your mindset,

and then evaluate if you feel like you're at a better point in your life or if you're at a worse point in your life.

Either are okay, because once again, life is a way of sometimes you're surfing it and sometimes you're being held under it.

You never know what you're going to get. But when we sit back and we reflect on who we used to be, it gives us a lot of clarity on who we want to be moving forward.

And if you evaluate and realize that you used to be in a much better place, you can take, think back to that time, take the habits that you were applying to your life then, and start reincorporating them now slowly but surely.

It can be one little thing every day. And if you're in a better place, then just take note of what you're doing that's different.

And just having the awareness of these things that you're doing in your life and what you're spending your time doing and what you're prioritizing and who you're around at the good stages and the bad stages of your life,

these are things that you have to be aware of. Because when you are, it gets a lot easier to feel in control of your life.

It takes you from being in the passenger seat to the driver seat and it's just very valuable. So I want you to think about it because that's not something that went through my head until today when I was reading these different journal entries.

And I wish it was something that went through my head at the end of 2022 because that was kind of a hard time for me. But I read the journal entries from the beginning of 2022 and realize that I was in such a great mental state.

And I know that I was. I can look back on that time period and think that I was actually happy. And I wasn't stressed and I wasn't overwhelmed. And I was just taking life one bite at a time instead of shoving the whole burger in my mouth.

You know, and I notice that life gets really hard for me and I go into my darkest of places when I put too much on my plate and when I try to like scarf it all down and eat it all at once.

And think about it in the sense if you need something that's like a literal metaphor. Think about what happens when you haven't eaten all day and then you just completely stop your face like you get so bloated and your stomach hurts and you get a headache and everything feels a mess.

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