35 Days – Follow your Heart

One night, a few minutes before I was about to go to bed, doing some poetry and spiritual thinking, it just hit me:
That we can do whatever we want. And this sounds so unspectacular and almost self-evident, when really it is one of the most amazing things about being alive. Like think of it, you can just go and shave your head, delete your social media, sell your belongings and travel, stop eating animals, tell somebody you love how you feel about them, basically you can just do whatever your heart tells you to do, and be whoever you want to be. And you can do and be all this now.

I personally always admired people who live a holistic and healthy lifestyle, and eat plant-based food. I always aimed to become such a person one day, in the future. I found excuses why I couldn’t be such a person in the present (too expensive, to difficult when living together with my family blablabla). Among other things I also always wanted to have a blog, I could share inspiration and positive, uplifting content on, but again I found excuses like not owning the right equipment, and I lived with the mindset that no one would be interested in my thoughts anyway. But excuses like these are really just illusions created by the fear to fail and to get out of our comfort zones. You don’t have to become what you want to be, you already are everything you want to be. You simply have to recognize it and integrate it into your daily life. If there’s something in this world that makes your heart beat faster, something that makes you feel alive, something you love or admire, then it is so because it reflects a part of yourself. Maybe a part you aren’t fully conscious about or havent fully live up to yet. But something that is already within.

So I decided to make somewhat like a challenge for myself.
For 35 days I wanted to pay special attention to what it was that catched my heart’s interest, and what I could do in the present to be this, or at least get closer to it. As I already mentioned earlier I am really interested in health. So after these 35 days I wanted my body to be nurtured with good, healthy, plant-based food. I wanted every single cell of mine to be full of life and vitality. I wanted my mind to be filled with positive, uplifting thoughts, and to be strong, vivid and supportive. Moreover I wanted to get rid of all illusions inside my head and make space for my wild spirit and soul, so that they could evolve and grow more freely.
Since I am a very visual person I wanted to have something I could look at each day. Something that would remind me of my challenge and allow me to journalize it in some sort of way. Therefore I got up, in the middle of night, and cut out 35 pieces of paper, on which I wrote numbers from 1 to 35. I drew each of them differently and placed them next to my bed where I would see them often.

At the end of each day I would add what I felt the lesson of this day was/what I learned to the numbers in just a few words or a sentence. In the picture you can see how my pieces of paper looked after the 35 days.

Since these days I try my best to do what my heart tells me to. On day 2 I started this blog Happy Souls Club. Before that I thought I needed to wait for the right moment, but the simple truth is, there is no better time to start doing what you love than now. I also feel like in these days a lot more things have happened in my life than they usually do, simply because I took more action.
Now, always being honest with yourself can be pretty tough and challenging, and I still catch me self sabotaging more often than I wish I would. In these days I paid special attention to the intentions behind my behaviour and had a lot of informative and interesting conversations with my heart, which expanded my view on life and myself.
I got better at transforming negative, self-destructive mind sets into positive uplifting ones and I experimented a lot more with food.

This was what I experienced during my 35 days. What is it you want to experience, learn, get better at, explore and work on? It doesn’t have to be anything big and loud. Taking 5 minutes a day to be mindful, say ‘yes’ and ‘thank you’ more often, or eating more vegetables can have a huge effect on your daily life. And don’t get me wrong, this post is about a 35 Day Challenge, but this is of course just a concept that allows us to visualize and journalize our progress in the first days. Working on being the best version of ourself is something we should be doing our entire life and each day. For me personally, this was a helpful way to push myself out of my comfort zone and finally take responsiblity for my heart’s desires. It isn’t always fun, it’s definitely not simple, but it’s beautiful and it allows us to grow and rise into who we really are. Into anything and everything we wish to be. Each day, each moment we have the opportunity to create ourselves. Do you take it?