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It was my birthday yesterday and if you haven’t already guessed, I turned a super young age of 20 (plus tax). As a tradition, I like to reflect back on my year and think about the things that I’ve learned in the past year. Some things need repeating from year to year and other things are interesting challenges that I have faced.
Without further ado, I hope you learn some things from my reflection:
1. Stretching is becoming increasingly important for me
Everybody knows how important exercise is but as I get older, I am noticing that I do not recover just as quickly as when I was younger — I have aches and pains in different places on my body that I never noticed before and I know that when I was younger, if I had something bothering me, the next day, it would go away. Not so nowadays. So even though I do focus on exercising at least 3–5 times a week, I also now spend a bit of time warming up, stretching and cooling down — so much so that I’ve experimented with night time yoga / stretches so that I can improve my flexibility.
2. You can’t control what others do or feel, you can only control what you do and how you feel
Sure you might be able to influence what others say or do or feel and when I was younger, I would spend a countless amount of energy trying to get people to say or do…
