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Living Up

Lessons to level up your life

Living Up

What is Living Up – what does it mean?

Living Up is short for making the best of your life. Anything life throws at us, we must do the best. We must improve, polish good habits and discard negative, bad habits.

It’s simple really, if you think of what you want to eat when you’re hungry and you’re across the street from a McDonald’s or similar fast food restaurant, you’ll want the fries, right? I mean, it’s hard to say no to fries :). Anyway, if you can, you’ll get the small portion so you will not overdo. But a better choice is to carry healthy snacks with you, such as nuts, that will help you wait until you get to a place where you can have a proper meal.

Why this blog?

Everyone has something to say about something, and I am no different in that aspect, but I don’t like to force my ideals on people, what a better way to do it than to write a blog.

I am not expecting followers, but it is a form of free expression that I am in love with, something that can keep on giving. I also have an inclination for the written word, I don’t have a very heavy accent, but can’t find the way to start either a YouTube or Podcast, maybe in the future I will (this is 2024 for the record).

But the real reason for this blog is that recently, I have been learning a lot about the psychology of the human brain and how the people who raised us impact our behavior today. I never thought I would find so many missing pieces of how I viewed the world around me in my life decisions. And like me, everyone has the same foundations of how we behave; sadly, I am realizing that much of the foundations of our society are slowly crumbling down, and not necessarily in a bad way. I think that people are not very religious, and this might be biased because I am not.

I believe we are more accepting of unexplained facts such as magic, and we strongly believe love is the answer to many problems. I am enthralled with the ideas of multiverses and distant galaxies with people like us (maybe not with the same looks). We are entertaining the idea that some foundations in human design are transcendental, such as love, life, fight, fear, and survival. I would like to explore a few more things in my life and write about them. And why not, everyone’s doing it!

One of my passions is travel, being from Guatemala I have travelled there often, although perhaps not as often as some family members would like. I intend to travel to other locations. I have at least been to a few countries, Mexico, England, Switzerland, Israel, Hawaii, and Jamaica. In my bucket list of places to visit in the future is: Puerto Rico, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Argentina, Colombia, back to England and Mexico and so many more places, but to start, these would be first on my list and I hope I can fill the travel section of this blog with that experience.

Hi I'm Ana

I love learning and strongly support continuous self-development and education. I fully believe you always have to challenge yourself in learning new things by reading books, blogs, and articles, asking questions and listening to podcasts, learning new skills such as new languages, and developing hobbies, or whatever it is that keeps us wondering, just, keep on learning!

I am a strong believer in always being curious about everything new. I am also a follower of positivity, strategy, and respect, working hard to get rid of negative vocabulary such as “I can’t…” or “I’m too old for…” (fill in the blanks… or rather not).

You are the commander of your ship, make the best of your personal journey.