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Feeling Stuck in Life? This Is the Sign For You.

You deserve more than just nice.

Katarzyna Portka
3 min readApr 3, 2022
Photo by Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash

Hit the road. Dive into deep waters. Right now is your new ‘later’.

Will it be uncomfortable? Yes. Will you miss the old life? Yes. But you can handle it.

In the discomfort, you discover who you are. That is the privilege only the most disciplined can master.

I am not preaching to push yourself out of the comfort zone. I invite you to get curious.

Get curious about your reactions to the uncertainty, to the unknown. In the unknown, the magic of self-discovery happens. It is how you shape your new identity and abandon old beliefs that keep you small.

Out there’ is where inspiration hits. ‘Out there’ is where growth happens. Step out. Make a change. Make a mistake. Blush. Brush it off. You will be just fine.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

— J.K. Rowling

Stop waiting for permission to be happy; for the promotion, for your parents to be on the same…

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Katarzyna Portka
Katarzyna Portka

Written by Katarzyna Portka

Hungry for advice? I am here for you. I write about small habits that lead to monumental changes.

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