Every day, I wake up with joy and enthusiasm, excited for new experiences, meeting new people, learning new things, facing challenges, and overcoming obstacles. With each challenge, I learn something new and have the opportunity to make someone smile or share my experiences and knowledge to help them tackle the new day, week or month with courage.

But it wasn’t always this way for me.

I clearly remember feeling lost and without any direction. As a teenager, I felt like I was just a small, insignificant dot in this world…