Welcome to Newsletter 15 (minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance)!

What up team, how we living? I hope everyone’s April was beyond fantastic. It was a good but tough month – had its moments. Summer is quickly approaching and I cannot believe we are already 33% done with 2025. Time really does fly!

I feel like I just wrote my March newsletter, and now all of a sudden, I’m writing the April one! I remember thinking during mid-April, “Oh, the end of April is coming up, gotta start thinking about newsletter topics.” And honestly, the topics hardly come to me until I start writing. Sometimes, I have a general idea of what I want to talk about, but usually, the thoughts just flow out as I clack away on the keyboard.

Today, though, there has been something on my mind that I’ve wanted to write about. Even more so, it’s something I’ve been trying to tell myself for a long time and still can’t seem to fully grasp.

I’ve Been Blind

Yes, I often need to taste my own medicine. Earlier in the month, I felt I had a bit of mental fog – I had my blinders on. I was harping entirely on what I didn’t have and projected that heavily onto how I interacted with others. I focused solely on what was wrong and gave no weight to anything that was right. I write this, not to tout some easy way to shake off a rut, but to open up a conversation and invite anyone else to chime in regarding if/when they’ve felt a similar way. In hindsight, I feel I was blind because I was ungrateful – I was ignoring all the good in my life, not displaying true gratitude, and just going through the motions.

When I’m in a bad mood, I often get annoyed and upset with myself for being in that bad mood. How dare I waste even a day of this special thing we call life by being angry? I think I’m getting better at not doing this though, at allowing myself to feel what I am feeling. But I do think this can only be done to an extent. To the point where it is spilling over and affecting your day-to-day and your relationships – this is where a line needs to be drawn (and where I needed to WAKE UP).

You cannot let your thoughts and feelings dictate your actions. Everyone has thousands of thoughts during the day, and if we listened to each one, nothing would get done. We’d be paralyzed with fear, angered by indecision, and overwhelmed with the noise. I think sometimes I operate too much in auto-pilot and became a slave to my thoughts; I’m unhappy with x and so, I act unhappy, and so, I believe I am unhappy. Not to say that you can’t feel any certain way you want to, but we cannot let it control us. This gives our negative thoughts and feelings more attention and ammunition than they deserve.

Sometimes, we just need to look in the mirror and snap tf out of it. Sometimes, we need to let it run its course and let time pass. And sometimes, we need to lean on others for support. Don’t forget about that last option – there are always people to turn to, people who want to help you, people who care about you. At the very least, there’s always ChatGPT to vent to!

A Random Aside: Just Because You Can’t Do It Right Now Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Ever Do It

Remember when I said that newsletter topics sometimes come to me as I write? Exhibit A. Let’s say there’s something you want to do, but can’t do write now: run a marathon, own a property, become an artist, start a business, touch your toes, learn to code, lose weight, etc. Whatever it may be, just because today isn’t the day it gets done, doesn’t mean that day won’t ever come.

Recently, I’ve been working on building out this idea that I’ve had, and I started to wonder, “Is this even possible? Am I even capable of creating this? Can this even exist?” And these thoughts start to snowball into me wondering if I am wasting my time on an impractical project. But then I think, if you told someone 100 years ago about an idea to create “the Internet,” they’d look at you sideways and maybe suggest you are a descendent of a Salem Witch. But here we are, today, with the Internet! By NO MEANS am I saying that what I am working on is comparable or equivalent by any means to the LITERAL Internet, but the notion is the same in that just because something is not possible or fathomable or visible or understandable or attainable right now, does not mean that it is permanently out of reach. Every day, we must strive to get a little closer, push the envelope a little farther, defy expectations 0.1% at a time.

Just because you can’t do something right now, doesn’t mean you can’t ever do it. If someone else can do it, you can too. If you can believe it, you can achieve it. If you count yourself out before you even start, you’ll never get it. So believe you can, and eventually you can.

Thank you for listening to me!

You know the drill: everything I write here is something I am actively working on improving and implementing within myself. Writing them out also helps me to visualize what to work on and how to do it. And having you as my audience holds me accountable.

If you have any thoughts, comments, or feedback, please dish it to me! I’d love to know how I can improve. I am glad to have you here on my VasaVita journey.

If you want to talk more about anything I discussed in my newsletters, or want to learn more about VasaVita, check out my website below!

See you next month!

And last but not least, the following growth check!

You all know the drill now: in the sprit of transparency and holding myself accountable, I include my audience count here to keep you apprised on my growth. We got some new joiners in April!!

Looking forward to ~hopefully~ more growth next month! If you have any ideas or tips, feel free to share!