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Read if You Seek Abundance

Byliv March 30, 2024March 30, 2024

Suppose you have the luxury of seeing the end of your timeline loom near, covered with lines and wrinkles from all the days you lived, surrounded by friends you’ve known through decades and family too. Would you rather be whining to them about all the things you never got to do, or telling them stories of faraway lands you explored, experiences you lived, and the people you met and fell in love with along the way?

The choice is yours, and you get to make that choice every day you wake up.

Creating Your Dream Life

What it Really Means to Age Gracefully

Byliv June 9, 2023June 9, 2023

I became chronically ill when I was 14 and it changed my perspective on many things. Let me tell you about one of them. When I was 14 and got sick, I couldn’t keep up with the busy life I was used to. During my freshman year of high school, I was going to school,…

Creating Your Dream Life

3 Little Changes That Will Actually Change Your Life

Byliv May 19, 2023May 19, 2023

When you make little, easy changes, you change your day-to-day life. Even when it seems like a small change, the way we live in the day-to-day becomes the way we spend all of our days on this Earth. So really, even the smallest changes can have a huge, positive impact on the grand scheme of…

Creating Your Dream Life

Little Thoughts About Life

Byliv April 29, 2023April 28, 2023

Lately, I’ve been thinking about life (I think about life a lot of the time) and I made some realizations about the way I want to live mine. Originally this was just a TikTok, but as I was making that, I realized it needed a blog piece of its own. Here are a few of…

Creating Your Dream Life

For the Winter Blues: How to Get Through the Last Weeks of Winter

Byliv March 3, 2023March 3, 2023

Life moves pretty fast, and the next time you blink, winter will be gone and it will be spring again. In the grand scheme of life, the time between now and summertime is no time at all. But while you’re living it from day to day, it can feel pretty slow and never-ending. But on…

Creating Your Dream Life

10 Ways to Romanticize Your Life

Byliv February 24, 2023February 24, 2023

What if you could take the life you live and turn it into a constant flow of happy moments without making any major changes, just small shifts? Here are some ideas of little things you can do, little changes you can make, that are so easy but will add so much beauty to your life….

Travel Stories

Travel Stories: Spring Break Part 2

Byliv August 5, 2022August 5, 2022

It wouldn’t be a college spring break trip without a little disaster, right?

Travel Stories

Travel Stories: Spring Break Part 1

Byliv July 29, 2022August 4, 2022

For my first spring break in college, I went on a 5-night desert road trip. We drove my car over 3,000 miles and crossed 5 different state lines. I went with my roommate, Peyton, and our friend, Gigi. We slept in the dirt for 5 nights and lived off of dining hall and dollar store…

Creating Your Dream Life

Your Guide to a “Hippie Summer Day”

Byliv July 15, 2022July 15, 2022

A hippie summer day: a day of overflowing love and happiness where it feels like it’s your first day on Earth and everything seems like the most stunning thing you have ever seen, but also like you understand everything. A day of sunshine, flower crowns, and smiling so hard your face hurts. If this sounds…

Creating Your Dream Life

Tips For Creating the Life of Your Dreams

Byliv July 8, 2022July 8, 2022

What if someone told you that you were going to spend a lifetime on a giant rock floating through space. You’re told there is no guarantee how many years you would get there, and once you die it’s over. But in the mean time, you get an abundance of opportunities for happiness. You get to…

Creating Your Dream Life

Why You Should Live Summer Like a Kid Again

Byliv June 24, 2022July 3, 2022

… and how to do it: Summer for a little kid could be the definition of a carefree, happy life. After that last bell rings on the last day of school, you’re suddenly free to talk and laugh with your friends as much as you want instead of being quieted and told to sit still…

Bucket List Living

50 Things to Add to Your Summer Bucket List

Byliv June 17, 2022June 17, 2022

Summer is a great time to cross some things off your life-long bucket list and make a summer bucket list of its own. Summer means trying new things, repeating traditions or the things that just feel like summer, and making many, many new memories. Creating a summer bucket list is a great way to come…