Your 30's are a time of blossoming

My first year of being 30, has been a wild ride of new motherhood amidst the backdrop of a global health pandemic and a worldwide economic recession.

I'm hopeful and optimistic by nature. I have buckets of optimism to go around. I smell the roses whenever I get the chance. I find it easy to reframe most hard situations as 'opportunities for growth'.

But as I look in the rearview mirror of my 20's, I do feel a pang of regret for the opportunities I didn't take. The things i wanted to do, but held myself back from doing because i deemed it too frivolous, maybe too daring or maybe just too scary and I didn't know if I could handle myself in those situations.

Little did I know back then, that YES, you can handle almost every single situation life throws at you.

You just have to be brave enough to throw yourself into the deep end. if that's not your style, then slowly wade into the pool until you reach the deep end. Both options are better than never getting into the pool.

So as my next birthday approaches, I've vowed for my 30's to be the decade where i take all my learnings from my 20's and take action.

I vow to be a more integrated, holistic version of myself, reconciling difficult things from the past, but also rising above them.

I vow to take aligned action, more often in order to curate the life I have always known I could lead.

I vow to let go of the past grievances and rise above them. I want to feel powerful, not caged in by my past conditioning.

I vow for my 30's to be a time of blossoming as I integrate my career aspirations, self-expression and motherhood all into one.