Do you sometimes feel lost in life? Perhaps you haven’t progressed enough toward your true life goals. School takes up all your time. Heck, leave your homework to the last day because you’ll be older and therefore wiser. You work 9–5 but feel as though you are going nowhere at all. Have you forgotten to foster gratitude for all the things that have gone right?

Some days you can feel like your own worst enemy. Believe it or not, how you treat yourself can actually be more destructive than how others treat you. For the sake of your well-being, you need to look inward, sweet friends.

Has anyone ever said, “You’ll understand this when you get older”? What exactly were they talking about? Have you had any awakenings or revelations in your life as you got a tad older? Perhaps you also wonder where all the time went. Wasn’t it just summertime a couple of weeks ago? Now it’s dark at 4 p.m. You know this time of year has no afternoons. It’s morning until 2 p.m., then night.

Do you believe that you are psychologically evolving? Do you value “growth”? Perhaps you don’t even know what that means to you. Trust me, you are not alone. Most of us respond to events in our present based on situations in our past.

Ever meet someone who has no earthly idea how difficult they are to be around? He may even have a heightened belief in his own excellence or perfection. No matter how sensitively you deliver the criticism, she will simply get offended or even accuse you of being impolite or rude.