This is Why You Are Not Leading Your Best Life

I have been challenged to take a picture of one second a day of my life. What I have found since the start of 2019 is the following: That one second a day is mainly of moments that, in all honesty, define me as someone who controls the trajectory of her day pretty much from start to finish.

My days consist of physically going to work, dashing from room to room with my crazy Spanish teaching schedule, prepping for the next day, leaving for the gym, working out, teaching yoga, making dinner and then exhaustion. It’s go, go, go collapse. Trust me I get a lot done, but it’s more of an intense monotony than anything else.

Now, before I go further, I want to say that I absolutely love my job(s). Sending time with kids and watching them grow into beginning Spanish learners is amazingly fulfilling and fun. That feeling after I’ve helped someone truly relax and come back to themselves after a yoga practice does just as much for me as it does for my students.

But…and there is a but, how much of what I do in a day holds me hostage to a life I don’t actually want to lead?

How much of what I am doing, do I actually want to do? Am I doing it because it’s supposedly good for me, or so I’ll look a certain way? It seems I am avoiding exactly what I teach my students to embrace–myself.