The Pivot Year

by Brianna Wiest

When it comes to loving other people, they mostly just want to be heard; they ultimately need to feel seen.

What can seem as though it is your unraveling is sometimes your rebalancing.

Everything is borrowed, and everything is temporary while you are here.

It is not whether or not you have ever made a wrong turn, but whether or not you were willing to find your way back to the path.

You will realize that if you did not have the exact experiences you had just as you had them, you would have missed out on the essential lessons, tools, and pieces of wisdom that built you into the person you are today—the person who will keep walking you forward.

it is the consistency with which you act on your visions that enables them to transform from ideas into realities the entire world can see.

It is not to reconstruct your identity with pieces of what the world may deem more acceptable but to deconstruct the notion that you must fit within a mold at all.

Follow the vision that you find to be most meaningful and most worthwhile.

Not the vision the world attempts to superimpose on your psyche with all the charms and emblems of a life-well-lived:

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Design your life to your own liking, your own standard, your own inner peace. Rather than basing your decisions on how things appear, base them on how they feel. 157 Everything that is meant for you is still waiting for you.

You still contain within you the potential of all you ever wanted to be. It is never too late.

There will always be beautiful experiences waiting for you to choose them wholeheartedly.

The healing is in who you choose to become, regardless of what you’ve done or what’s happened in the past.

When you look for the lesson, you find the silver lining.

Whatever you feel most strongly about is the next thing that needs to happen.

Consistency is the tonic that transforms your life into a dream of your own design.

There is so much power in what you do not say, in what you choose to keep your own.

When you work on becoming the person you want to be, the things that are meant to be yours find you.

The funny truth is that no matter which way you decide to lead your life, there will be people who resonate with it and people who don’t.

What can appear on the surface as repeated failure is often your most life-giving internal navigation system leading you to the most important experience of your life.

Your journey is defined by how you tell the story, and by how willing you are to tell a new one when it’s time.

No two loves are repeatable because the chemical reaction between souls, the merging of little universes, makes a world all its own, a compound that cannot be recreated.

Wisdom is the product of asking the hard questions as well as the simple ones.

Your shimmering parts will feel the most vulnerable.

Let yourself contradict the older versions of yourself that you’ve outgrown.

the journey of true self-actualization is to embrace your juxtapositions.

Passing judgment on others won’t limit their potential, it will only set up a bar of expectation around your own.

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takes a lot of heart to be who you are.

When you are firm within your truth, you may lose some approval, but what will you gain?

You’re okay despite every reason you shouldn’t be. You’re still standing.

You are only at the end of the experience of being this one particular version of yourself.

There are times in your life that are meant for introspection, and evaluation.

The right ones lead you back to yourself. They remind you of all the pieces of yourself that went missing over the years.

There is what you experience, and then there is the story you tell yourself about it.

It is a sacred thing to be able to feel a world many just move through. Don’t ever let anyone take that away.

You are here to explore and have a story all your own.

Let it hurt and let it pass.

Let it teach you something on the way out.

You think the journey is becoming enough for other people, but it is actually learning to be enough for yourself.

You do not exist to adapt to other people’s needs. You are a universe all your own.

An honest heart is rare. A heart that is willing to be earnest, and sincere.

A heart that is strong enough to keep loving, no matter how many times it has been bruised.

Trust that there is a calling upon your life, and no experience, no matter how painful or confusing, will be wasted in the end.

What they would have wished you had done.

You ask yourself what path will make you more of the person you are meant to be.

At the end of the day, we are all looking for a soft place to land, arms that want to hold us, and someone who is willing to listen.

You imagine a life that would be too good to be true, and then you take note of the elements, the themes.

The next time you are faced with the exact same challenge, you are being called to ask: how can I respond differently this time?