I’m 30 and I am still looking for myself
And, that's okay.
The day I turned 30, my whole life changed. I felt like a brand new man!
I knew that logic was flawed. My dad was never great at logic, especially when he was trying to trick me into doing something.
At the time, the 16-year-old me was being duped into joining the family business. The choice was heavily incentivized, it came with my dream car, a three month trip to Europe with my friends & a guilt-free marriage to my then-boyfriend.
At first blush, the deal wasn’t bad at all. I was given a chance to keep my privileged life, stay in the mould and take the easy way out!
But, it was just not enough.
A little voice inside me kept asking for more. I knew I wasn’t going to marry a guy whose entire personality was his car. Taking over a business I had no interest in, didn’t seem justified either.
All it took was one YouTube video & a few Jane Austen novels to break the mould. I pulled my journal out and in red bold letters, I wrote;
WHERE DO I SEE MYSELF AT 30?
I spent the day penning down what my next few years were going to look like! I had just been introduced to the life-changing concept of intention setting. The business wasn’t going to…
