The biggest thing that’s really stood out for me over the last couple of weeks, is that life is what you make it. My first three years living up here were full of excitement and exploration. Last year, with all of the chaos going on in the world, I made less of an effort to do anything fun or adventurous, imagining that life would get better again “once this was all over.”

I’ve been wanting to start a vlog about my life in the Colorado Rockies for a really long time now, but I never really knew when and how to start. The reality of beginning something new, however, is that there really is no perfect time to start anything—you can never truly be “ready”—you just have to decide to start and then do so, and that’s exactly what I did here.

If you’ve lost your joy and are looking to find it again, this video is for you. In it, I share with you one simple trick that I use to find joy again, that you can also adopt to bring joy back into your life. The trick that I use is changing my perspective, and when I’m talking about changing perspective, I don’t mean metaphorically, I mean visually.