# @carmen.strives on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLk0_2qo0uF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59924316-carmenstrives-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/626261553d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-01T18:38:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Carmen | Medical student 🩺 (@carmen.strives) — https://gondola.cc/carmen.strives

## Caption

Feeling lost? I was too.
This is what helped me to find my direction — and maybe it’ll help you too ⬇️

Step 1: Sit with yourself for 30mins🧘🏻‍♀️
No noise, no distractions.

Step 2: Write your answers TRUTHFULLY✍️
• What makes me feel alive?
• What actually fulfills me?
• What am I naturally good at?
• What do people come to me for?

Step 3: Look closer.
Circle the answers that keep repeating.
The pattern is not random, it’s a thread.

Step 4: Follow that thread for 3 months.
Pick one, go all in.
Learn. Build. Post. Create. Mess up.
It doesn’t need to be big — it just needs to be meaningful to you.

Step 5: Ask yourself after 3 months:
• Am I growing?
• Does this feel right?
• Do I like who I’m becoming?

If yes —> keep going.
If no —> good. You’ve narrowed it down and saved yourself some time.

You don’t need a 10-year plan.
You just need to keep rowing despite the ups and downs🚣‍♀️

📌Save this for later!

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Follow carmen.strives for more unfiltered life in med school *✩‧₊˚

#medschool #medstudent #medstudentlife #university #unistudent #student #truths #selfimprovement #lifelessons #startanyway #studentstruggles #findyourthing #rawgrowth

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truths, rawgrowth, medstudentlife, findyourthing, studentstruggles, medschool, university, student, medstudent, unistudent, selfimprovement, lifelessons, startanyway

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