The letter to my 80-year-old self is a way to manifest the life I want and reflect on the things that I wish I could have avoided. I would suggest everyone to right a letter to your older self.

My life’s been more than a dream…

All the times that I have allowed myself to let fear and worry consume me from taking a leap. Funny, those leaps are what got me here, right where I have always imagined. I’ve always said that I wasn’t dreaming that the right time was coming for everything I wanted to come to pass. The older I got the more I love myself, the more I fought for those who stood where I once was.

My biggest regret is allowing my fear to get the best of me at moments that I could of really been free. Once in a lifetime moments, that you can’t get back. Those are the moments you dream about for a lifetime. You daydream and wonder how you could have done them differently and who you would have been if you had. Or why you couldn’t let yourself really, really let go.

The biggest gift I wish I would have given myself was not to worry. Have a crystal ball telling me that it would all be okay. I remember hearing the women say that at each millstone it only gets better, your 20s are better than your teens, your 30s are so much greater than your 20s. The key to life is to really live it. Not to think about embarrassment or the harsh reality of the social norms that life tries to force upon all of us, to somehow get us fit into their little box; their box of control.

I know the very moment that everything changed for me. It was when I stop caring and I would tell everyone to live their truth. That’s the real reason I wrote my book in many ways the hidden message is to do what you want, jump off that cliff into the water, and love; love hard without judgment. Don’t; judge the person you love, give them a chance to love you. Today’s generation we are so quick to hide who we are, that somehow just having the most expensive things or the most money will make us happy. I never believed that or would allow myself to get sucked into a stupid societal plead for help. Every moment, every person you love is precious love them and show them your whole heart.