This week, I am in LA for the YouTube Partner Conference & VidCon 2010- so expect fun interviews with YouTubers about dating topics!

In the meanwhile, below is a post that I wrote and intended to post this past January, as a reflection of the whole year 2009 and what I’ve learned.

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It was such an incredible year for me with lot of BIG changes and life-altering experiences, so I thought I’d share them with you. Lessons and gifts that 2009 offered me:

1. It’s easier to run away from things (thinking that you’re escaping), but running blindly gets you no where and often times you realize, you’ve just been running in circles.

2. Complacency: We can be complacent in:
o Relationships
o In how we act in social settings (wallpaper, sticking to our own circle)
o Expectations of ourselves, to avoid failure

3. Intense or strong reactions or walls, stems from EGO.

4. Lost IS an opportunity in disguise. This is when evaluation really kicks in. Is this what I really want to do? What is my purpose? Am I living the best life? Doing my most potential? Am I happy? When a door closes, another door opens. Recession, job change, lost of job, has made so many young people evaluate how they are spending their time, if they are really doing what they want: because you can lose your job in a heartbeat. Do what you love so you don’t feel like you’re just floating by.

5. My biggest fear: Being oblivious to how things really are or how people feel. Who’s reality really matters?

6. Most importantly, I’m appreciative of how fortunate I am.
From the great opportunities that come my way to the fantastic people I have in my life- I must be the luckiest person on Earth.

Being able to focus on a path of coaching & self-awareness- what I’m deeply passionate about. I have a mum who’s supportive of me, by expecting my unexpected decisions (doesn’t mean she stopped worrying about me). Luckily, I get spend most my time helping people and helping with transformations. And lastly, I feel extremely lucky to have good quality friends, especially my classmates who have been unconditionally supportive and loving.

In 2009 was such a year of invigorating experiences:
o Fantastic friends that went on a memorable RV roadtrip to Disneyland for my 28th birthday
o Spending time with my Boston family in May. My aunt made fried chicken and I love me some fried chicken!
o I met Robin Thicke- a gentle and charismatic person
o Incredible 4th of July, celebrating one of my closest friend’s bday filled with baby farm animals, funnel cake, the best fireworks show and Sunday neighborhood family parade.
o Living and working remotely for a month in the mountains of Costa Rica- rain forest, volcano, horseback riding, getting to know my friendly Rican neighbors
o Roadtripping around the country & discovering the South giving out Free Hugs near Christmas time: Nashville, New Orleans, Austin, Grand Canyon, great new friends
o Life-changing spiritual coaching program with the most incredible and supportive fellow classmates, deep personal development

And of course, what would I do without my v’stars?! I’m very thankful for you and the joy you bring to me, yourself and the world. What lessons are you grateful for?