This month, I want to focus more on living more intentionally. I have noticed that I’ve been straying away from my own self and slowly molding myself into my surroundings.

A couple of times, I have talked about living with a hoarder and being in a family whose lifestyle is 360 degrees different from mine.

I am a minimalist but that doesn’t mean I live like a pauper or even remotely trying to be poor. I simply want to do things that really are bringing value and highlighting the things that really matter to me. So, these misconceptions are always something that becomes a huge topic whenever we have a family get together.

So, maybe I haven’t really figured out how to coexist with them. How do you live with differences in your family? If you have some advice, you have to let me know.

Despite some wins that I got, I can’t lie, there were times when I got carried away. They say, your environment can really influence the way you live your life. Well, that couldn’t be far from the truth.

Being around the family, I was constantly exposed to a lifestyle I no longer subscribe to. I live a different life than many of my family and it is something I am truly proud of until well, there was minor guilt tripping, comparison, gaslighting that keeps happening whenever I talk to them.

If I am being completely honest, these past few months especially after my dad’s passing, I have only gotten a few times to sit alone and to reflect on many things happening to my life these past decades, even the core reason why I decided to live a minimal life.

Now, after seeing some deaths around me, I’ve become more convinced that this is the lifestyle that truly resonates with me. In the end, a person is remembered for their legacy, not little things they left behind which was bought just for in case.

All of my family who recently passed away, left a lot of things. They left small things that barely had any value and something they purchased because they just liked it. It filled up the house to the point that the only thing we could do to it, is throw it away. There were only a few things that were still having some value that they left us. With that, I realized that in the end, what matters is not all the little things that we purchased but who we are as a person.

This July, I want to continue all the things I have done these past 6 months and reconnect back to my minimalist self. To pursue a life intentionally, worth living and worth cherishing for. Even if it’s quite different from the surroundings. In the end, I have to really be proud of it, being proud that this is myself and what I believed in.

How about you, what are you planning to focus on this month?