Step one....

Step one. Look at your surroundings, take it all in.

Step two. Breathe in deeply. Inhale the space and all that it means.

Step three. Stop thinking and start living.

Somehow, when I stopped thinking and just started living my life ended up going full circle. I read a quotation the other day and it said, "Our lives went full circle backwards." I read that and I could totally relate to it, I'm currently in Puerta Princes, Philippines sitting in a coffee shop. Last year, I was in Puerta Princesa and at that time in my life I never, in my wildest dreams thought that I would be here again.

It's crazy how as soon as I stopped thinking about it, stopped focusing on the thing that stressed me out the most, I ended up living my dreams. I'm here and it's real and I'm happy and that's so important to me. Yes, I get homesick and I get sad and I miss things at home, but I'm very happy.

The culture shock, the new job, the new friends that I'm meeting everyday, I'm so happy. I think that the coolest part is that I'm happy but no matter what I'm not content nor am I satisfied with it. This is wonderful but it can get better and wowza am I looking forward to when it does.

I'm amazed with the way that life works, literally amazed with it. I think the beauty of my relationship with God and the way that I view him is the fact that there are so many things that I don't understand about life and the world and that's okay with me. I don't get how I'm here right now, and how I've been able to accomplish and experience so many things, I don't get it and that's alright. God has worked so many things out for me and I always end up looking back and being surprised by how things just fall together.

Step three is the one that I have the hardest time with, but it's the one that is the most rewarding for me. When I just stop and relax everything just falls into the right place, when I'm living in the present and giving my all to God and allowing myself to experience life, the future just resolves itself and that's awesome.

I'm just really happy and I'm excited for where my life is going to go in the future. The other day I met this person and they said to me, "I don't know you that well, but I know that one day you're going to be a big deal. You're going to be really successful at whatever you choose to do." That just meant so much to me and I'm always taken back when people believe in me as much as I believe in myself, it's so encouraging.

Future I'm so ready for you, but until you get here I'm going to enjoy the present.