Today’s my birthday!!!!

Can we have a round of smiles and dance a little in our PJs while listening to Good Life by OneRepublic?

Cool! Thanks for joining me in this silliness.

Birthday Cake

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I have to make a confession: I don’t usually celebrate my birthday at all. I think the last time I had a birthday party was when I was 13 or so. As much as this might surprise you, I don’t like to be the center of attention for too long. And I just never saw the point of birthdays.

However, for some unknown reason, turning 26 matters to me. Maybe it’s because I’ll be 27 next year; a thought that really freaked me out a few months ago.

Or maybe I am just finally realizing that I matter and that me being here is a cause of celebration.

Or maybe there’s no reason for my excitement at all.

However, whether you’re as excited about birthdays as my sister  is (love you, girl) or you couldn’t care less about having a new number associated to you, birthdays – like New Year’s – can be a great source of reflection.

Birthdays give you the opportunity to think back on everything you did in the past 12 months, all the victories you’ve had and all the losses you’ve experienced. They give you the chance to see how much you’ve grown or show you that you’re still in the same place as before – happily or not.

Birthdays allow you to dream and write down wishes for yourself and your life. Where do you want to be in 12 months? What do you want to create? Who do you want to be with and where do you want to live? What do you want to have and what do you want to desperately get rid of?

Come to think of it, birthdays are actually a pretty cool thing. 🙂

As I was meditating on my victories, my challenges and my big revelations, I came  up with 26 lessons that I want to share with you today.

So, if you want to learn about life, are curious how I see the world at this moment in time and want to know what Gabby Bernstein, massages and skinny jeans have to do with my birthday, then watch this week’s video of Love Yourself Friday!

I could have added so many more lessons like how red lips and scarves turn any bad day around or how it’s crucial to always have band-aids in your purse or how you never stop learning or how there’s no such thing as better food than home-cooked German food or how worrying about the future is useless and senseless or how traveling is the ultimate way to understanding this world and understanding yourself or how it’s OK to dream big and want a lot.

It turns out that you learn a lot in 26 years. I can’t even begin to imagine how much I’ll learn in the next 26 years and more.

Now it’s your turn. Which lesson did you like most? Was there something that surprised you? And, more importantly, which lessons have you learned in your life that matter to you and that you’d like to share with us? 

If you enjoyed this video, then I’d so appreciate you sharing it on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and email. That’d be my perfect birthday gift. 🙂

One more note: I want to say thank you for all of you who read this blog. Thank you for being here. Thank you for walking this journey called life with me and thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to read, comment and share. You mean the world to me and I would not be here without you. You truly are the best and I love you to pieces.

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