The Pivot Year

by Brianna Wiest

Sometimes, your hardest pivots are rerouting you to your greatest destinies.

One day, life will show you what was waiting on the other side of the storm.

One day, life will show you that it was always on your side.

Your life begins the day you are willing to toss aside the ancient blueprint of what you thought would be and witness instead what is in front of you and use it.

Your existence only has to feel meaningful to you.

As much as you have to decide what’s worth trying for, you also have to decide what’s worth letting go of.

Everything changes when you shift from attempting to force outcomes to attracting the very particular things that are meant for you.

What you don’t realize is that when you are nurtured, it changes the way you interact with the world around you.

The things that are meant for you are drawn to you when your light is on, so focus on turning it on.

The life you lost to fear, the life you lost to the opinions you valued over your own happiness.

If it is truly meant for you, it will come back to you.

I hope you will have faith in the fact that everything that’s meant for you will find you, remain with you, or return to you.

I hope you’ll never lose faith that your happy ending is still there, still waiting.

because it does not serve you to live beneath the weight of all the lives you could have lived.

if a dream still lingers within you year after year, it is not an escape, it is a calling.

If it’s truly for you, it will always be waiting.

Maybe it was never about waiting for someone else to show up and make it all okay, but realizing that you’ve had that power inside you all along.

If it does not lead to more peace in your life, it is not in alignment.

Nobody, not even the most seamlessly put together, ambitious, strong, popular, and healthy ones among us know exactly what they are doing.

when you live with the expectation that good things are coming, they tend to arrive one way or another.

The love of those who do not fully approve of us seems most appealing when our own self-concept is laced with self-rejection.

You must begin to see yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you.

When you’re processing pain, one of the most healing things you can experience is the presence of someone to witness you, and to validate you—and there is nobody who can do that more powerfully than you.

The most magnetic force you will ever possess is the power to be your true self.

You unleash the full capacity within you because something deep inside knows this is what your energy is meant to be spent on.

Open your heart to what flows when you touch it.

The beginning of all things is an idea, held and revisited, again and again, until the details come into form.

In the end, we are all just seeking the courage to love what we really love.

What is written in the stars is seeded in your heart—but it is what you nourish with the light of your awareness that you will bring forth into reality.

Because you learned to stop holding yourself to your own impossible standards and began to practice following your heart through each hour of each day,

Follow it into the unknown and trust your most powerful inner guidance system wouldn’t keep asking you to leap if there weren’t solid ground waiting to catch you, if there weren’t greater loves waiting to meet you, if there weren’t bolder experiences waiting to find you.

The past five years may have been unconsciously preparing you to create your greatest work of

art.

There is no expiration date on what you’re meant to do.

it

is the ones with the courage to go inward are often rewarded far beyond their wildest dreams.

Focus on that—the legacy you’ll leave.

it’s your job to plant yourself somewhere you can actually expand, you can actually connect,

It’s on the field of life that you learn how to play the game, not by waiting on the sidelines.

You will lose touch with the people that are meant to drift away, and one day, you will think of them for the very last time—though you will not know it is the last.

it’s not your job to decide who is worthy of love.

In solitude, you see who you truly are, and then when you bring that self back to the world, you’re distinctly different and unprecedentedly powerful.

You are worthy of love because you are willing to love.

Sometimes, our hearts and bodies know things before our brains can rationalize them,

Sometimes, doors close even when we beg them to stay open because we are being protected from what we cannot yet see.

The people who have not yet found their voices will think yours is too loud. Speak anyway.

Whatever you do, don’t be like them—the ones that have hurt you.

That is why facing your worst fears often leads you to your greatest growth.

The human mind needs to be challenged: it needs to be given questions to answer, solutions to find, and consistencies to familiarize itself

you spent this preparation period strengthening your sense of self, clarifying what it is you really want and what it is you really value in life.