I don’t know about you, but I personally used to (and still do sometimes) struggle with putting pressure on myself. Pressure to have achieved certain goals at a certain age, pressure to plan and get ahead, pressure to get to something as quickly as possible.. because once I hit 30, I can’t do it anymore. But why?

The more I spoke about this openly, the more ridiculous it sounded. But why did I have these thoughts? Where did this pressure come from? Why do we feel like our 20s are THE time, and from then onwards we have to have achieved it all and everything figured out?

This episode is very personal, like one of the ones from ‘back in the day’ - a proper journal entry episode of me sharing it all with you. But this episode is also a lesson on shifting your thinking, and reanalysing your beliefs and thinking patterns, as well and why we have created certain beliefs and coping strategies.

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