what a year...

Just woke up sitting on the veranda, the sun softly is warming my face. There are few cats around me lurking in case any food might drop down on the ground. I take a sip of my hot Cypriot coffee trying to enjoy this scenery before I head back to my hometown Limassol and celebrate the New Year’s eve with my parents.

Here in Pafos, I am aways more calm and especially staying at the Paphos Gardens of Leptos Estates who they do know how to make you feel like being home. Thank you Leptos for having us and for all the people who made our stay amazingly beautiful.

It is been an interesting year wasn’t it guys? I was thinking all the facts that took place in the 2020, and the only thing that stays in my head is the fact that we cannot predict anything anymore. Our plans can change within seconds and people can die within seconds. I am a life coach plus being a property manager and I was always been telling people to chase their dreams, plan their goals and go for it.

This year cost me the loss of a very good friend and the loss of my lovely auntie. No, they didn’t pass away due to Covid, although need to mention that I found out that in many countries they register patients as Covid deaths in order to get funding from the European Union. Shocking? not really, Governments they don’t really care about people’s mental health or well-being. They are thirsty for control and money, power.

We are just the puppets. I said what I have lost but I have also gained clarity, balance, wrote a book, started a new degree and joined an amazing work-family Metta. For me the workplace is not just a job, I am too sentimental and ethical. It is my life and I feel grateful for joining this family. Spending 8-9 hours of the day is not just a work, it is your life. Be wise with whom you work with.

Then it hit me, we are the puppets. If I was Nadia at my 16 that would be very dark and disappointing fact but being at the age 43 with the life experiences I had so far, I would say that this empowers the need to be more aware of who is part of my “world”, and to fulfil my ambitions. Does this sound a little bit insane to you? You could tell me Nadia , you just said that we are puppets, which means we do not have control over our lives.

On the contrary, we make choices every day, every minute. No one is telling you that you need a mansion or an expensive car to be happy. Well, they do try through advertisements and a luxury lifestyle but who is going to choose that path? YOU. None is forcing you to stay in that toxic relationship, and hanging out with energy vampires, right?

People get mistaken the phrase “chase your dream” with “make money”. I was one of them, chasing money and being obsessed. After I nearly lost my life few times, I realized that even the fact that I was making money I never really enjoyed it. I was one of the “zombies” chasing numbers.

Now, I am “chasing” the juice of life.This year taught me so many things and I am sure many of you too, taught me that finding our inner peace and be true to ourselves is the only thing that matters. Years ago, I used to have an issue of letting go, wanted people to like me being a good Christian girl. Today on the 31st December 2020, I admit once again, that if we are not able to let it to go, let toxic people go, let toxic relationships and way of thinking to go we will be forever slaves of our mind and poor decisions.

Thank you 2020 for once again for reminding us how small we are, how fragile we are, and the lesson is been taught. Now you can go and take with you the lockdown measures too J. We shouldn’t wait for our life - we shouldn’t plan for after 5 years.

Life is happening now, and it won’t wait for your perfect timing.

Start that yoga class you have been thinking, take the guitar lessons, learn kung fu, fall in love but first fall in love with yourself with your own life. Selflove and self-respect is a must, you cannot force anyone to love you and you shouldn’t even try. You are amazing and there is someone out there who will really love you for who you are. Have trust in yourself and the process.

Lastly but not least, I have experienced this year so much cruelty and anger from family and friends. People we have nothing to divide, the most precious gift can anyone has is kindness. Being kind, forgive but let them go. They are useless burdens that you do not need.

Try this exercise if you like, I wrote on a paper names and patterns that I do not wish to hold with me anymore and burnt them and through the ashes in the sea. Burn old patterns and let people go, let anting go who doesn’t serve you anymore.

I am welcoming 2021 with my mind wide open, with my ambitions to thrive being on the highest level, and so thirsty to live and enjoy my life living in the UK. We will manage any lockdown might come again, we will come out of this stronger. If you feel that you need help and struggling with mental issues, please talk to someone. We are all in this together. My goal for 2021 is to be a better person, empower my chi, my balance, and appreciate more of what I already have in my life and finally start that diet but not dry January for me guys!

Smile, love and be happy for what we have, everything else will fall into place as soon as we focus on ourself. Those who wants to be with you they will be, and what is meant to happen it will happen. In the meantime, do a job that you love, do things that you always wanted to do, spend time with people who appreciates you and be kind.

Time is the most precious asset we have. Invest it wisely.

Love y’all

Nadia

Thank you for reading my blog, and have a look later on my You Tube for my last video for the 2020. New year, new era, new us!