the best thing you can do for yourself is make your life bigger. go to the café you keep walking past. take the long way home. read books you know nothing about. talk to strangers. accept invitations. sit in parks. visit museums. try hobbies you're bad at. most people are waiting for life to happen to them, but the most beautiful moments usually find the people who keep moving, exploring, and staying curious. the more you experience, the more opportunities, friendships, and unexpected joys have a chance to find you.
the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest. the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
if you spend all day at a fish market, you’ll leave smelling like fish, even if you never touched one
but spend your day in a perfume shop and you’ll carry the scent even if you didn’t buy anything, that’s how environment works. it rubs off, whether you realize it or not. stay around complainers and everything starts to look negative. stay around excuse makers and growth feels optional but get around people who move with purpose, you’ll feel it.
get around people who live in gratitude, you’ll start to see differently. the scent of your environment will always follow you.