A Lot Can Change In A Year - So Don’t Give Up Hope

People underestimate how much they can accomplish in a year and overestimate how much they can do in a week or a month. So don't lose hope yet - you can change quite a bit of your life in a matter of months. So much so that you are completely unrecognizable! Keep going, my friends. 2022 and beyond awaits!

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Hello everyone,

I hope that you are doing amazing wherever you are.

I welcome you to another video on the Soul Vitamins community.

In this one I want to speak a little bit more about that email that I sent all of you recently.

And it said something like,

A lot can change in a year.

And I really truly believe that,

And I'm not just saying that because it's something that self-help gurus say all the time,

A lot can change in a year,

So start now.

It's something that I've experienced over and over again in my life.

It actually is unbelievable to me sometimes how much my life transforms almost every single day.

But also how much it transforms,

Has transformed over the past year,

Over the past two years,

Over the past five years,

Over the past ten years.

It's just insane to me when I look at it.

I'm sure everyone else looks at me and thinks,

Oh you're the same exact person.

I'm sure people look at me on my YouTube channel and they've been watching me for five years and they think,

Oh,

Except the fact that you've gotten older by five years,

You don't look any different or see many different.

I'm sure people think that from the outside in,

Of course,

Because physically I'm sure I haven't changed that much.

Maybe I've changed a bit but not that much.

But interestingly enough,

A lot of the changes,

Well actually all of the changes I would say,

Almost all of the changes that have happened have happened internally.

And they've been changing changes that you can't actually pinpoint to them and say,

Hey,

So this is how much I've improved.

I've improved 10% here and I've changed by 15% there and things like that.

It's very hard to say that because it's intangible things you can't really measure.

But I do know that every single time I look back upon a year,

And of course this is a good time to do it,

I'm sure all of you are kind of looking back upon your year about 2021 and looking at it and thinking,

Okay,

So what did I do?

What did I accomplish?

What did I not do?

What do I want to change next year?

What do I want to do the same of?

And so you're probably reviewing your year right now.

And if you're not,

Try to do it because it's a good way to do it.

Look back at the year and see what you did right,

What you didn't do right and what you want to change.

It's a good way to start the new year to do that if you have time.

And I do notice that every single time I do this,

Because I do this every year in December,

I look back at my year and think,

Okay,

So how is this year?

What did I do?

And I'm always amazed because I'll write some of the things down that I accomplished.

And I'm always amazed at,

First of all,

How much I've accomplished because it's easy to forget about a lot of these different things,

Of course.

You look at it and you're like,

I didn't really do that much.

Whereas if you actually looked clearly and you wrote everything down,

You realize,

Oh,

Wow,

I've actually done a lot and I forgot about a lot of these things.

I have a look at the things I've done,

The things that are on my list.

And I'll always be surprised because there'll be 10 or 15 items more on the list than I expected because I've forgotten what I did in January,

February,

March.

In the beginning of the year,

I might have done a bunch of things and I did.

And I forget about it because it seems so long ago because so much has changed since then.

I mean,

Even the fact that my location changes a lot is a huge deal because even though it seems very normal to me,

It's actually not.

I've moved many times this year,

Obviously within Bali itself,

But also I was in Mexico just in the beginning of this year and until May.

And I'm here now.

If I don't think about it,

It feels like a long time ago.

I can't believe that it was only a few months ago that I was in Mexico,

Only seven months ago.

It's not really a long chunk of time if you think about it.

On the other hand,

It's a big chunk of time as well.

But it doesn't make sense to me when I think,

Oh,

It's just this year that I was in Mexico.

It feels like such a long time ago.

It feels like an eternity has passed since that moment in time where I was standing in the airport in Mexico and saying goodbye to Puerto Vallarta and saying hello to Bali,

Even though it was only in May.

So things change very fast.

Things move very fast.

And if you don't sometimes document these things and write them down,

It feels like you might forget about them.

I think one of the things that I know I have a hard time with is congratulating myself,

Celebrating,

And really truly being nice and kind to myself and realizing,

Yeah,

I'm doing more than I give myself credit for.

So of course I change a lot over the year,

But I also do a lot over the year,

And everyone does.

And we forget all of that.

And we forget that we're doing a lot,

We're accomplishing a lot and how much we've changed.

And I constantly try to bring myself back to this mode of realizing,

Okay,

This spot where I'm in right now,

The fact that I'm a digital nomad,

I'm living location independent,

I'm moving from place to place,

I live where I want,

I do what I want,

I do what I want all the time.

All of this is something that I only dreamed about 10 years ago,

Five years ago.

These were dreams.

These were really powerful dreams,

But they were dreams in my head.

I wanted it so badly.

I didn't know how I would get it,

But I wanted it very badly.

And they were in my heart,

In my mind.

I would visualize it,

I would think about it,

But I didn't know how it would happen.

And I dreamt about it all the time,

And I'm here,

I'm doing it,

I'm accomplishing it,

I'm actually living it.

And it just feels astonishing to me really sometimes when I think about it.

And I try to remind myself of that,

Is that the life that I was dreaming about just a few years ago is a life that I'm leading right now.

And that's how much can change in the matter of a few years,

In the matter of a second actually,

Because from one second to the next,

I quit my job,

I left Toronto,

I moved to Chiang Mai,

To Thailand,

And decided I was going to do this new life of living on the road.

So it literally can't change from one second to the next,

But it does require a little bit of planning,

Which I should have done more of,

But I didn't.

I kind of just jumped into it.

I'm glad that a lot of people don't do it that way.

But as I said,

Things can change very much,

Very rapidly,

And if you look back a year ago,

The person that you were is probably very drastically different from who you are right now.

And the person that you're going to be in a year from now,

In December 2022,

Is going to be drastically different as well from the person you are right now.

This is not the final version of you.

You're going to change a lot more,

And you're going to keep on changing,

You're going to keep on changing over whatever amount of years you have left on this planet.

So all of this is to say that if you are thinking about making a change,

And if you want to improve something in your life,

It will not take decades for it to happen.

It will not take centuries for it to happen.

It won't take years for it to happen either.

It could literally be as quick as 10 to 12 months,

Or even less than that.

As soon as you start saying,

Okay,

This is what I want to do,

This is how I want to change my life,

And you start making the changes,

It could be very quick.

You just have to make that decision,

You have to start doing the work,

Which a lot of us falter in,

Because we're like,

Oh,

It's going to take forever,

I'm not even going to start.

And I know I did that for the longest time because I was like,

I'm never going to be a disanomad,

I'm never going to start,

What's the point?

I'm never going to get there.

As soon as I did start,

I got there very quickly,

Which is ironic,

Think about it.

If I had just started earlier on,

I would be there earlier,

Even earlier,

Right?

But I can't change the past,

But I can change the present moment,

And I can be more cognizant of the fact that it's very easy and very fast to change something.

As soon as you start thinking about it,

As soon as you start working on it,

It does change very rapidly.

It's not something that you need to worry about or think about,

You just have to do the work.

So yeah,

I would love to hear about something that you're interested in changing,

Something that you're wanting to work on,

Something that you want in the new year that you're thinking about.

Please share with us in the comments below,

And I shall see you in the next one.

Bye!