“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
Welcome, thanks for coming back. Must not be the new years because you haven’t fallen off yet.
Last time I discussed how I can start to let things slide. I get closer to my goal, so I let up. I don’t see any progress, so I let up. A no win situation.
So why is that? Remember all the questions from the last part? Here they are so you they are fresh…
Am I not strong enough?
Am I not determined enough?
Am I not good enough?
Am I just average?
Am I just weak minded?
Am I just Lazy?
The first three questions are just my head doubting myself. They are questions that foster self limiting beliefs. Those are the thoughts that tell me I can’t do I and perpetuate the viscous cycle that continues the pattern, over and over. These are the negative thoughts that become beliefs and route themselves inside my internal operating system if I don’t fight them.
The last three are reaching for answers. Trying to discover a reason for my weaknesses and a way to explain why I stop short so often.
So, Am I average, weak-minded, and lazy? No, but I can be at times.
The answers can unlock the door to change that fosters growth and progress towards something bigger and better. I have to dig deep to find these answers that catalyze the internal change that will allow me to cross the finish line.
Yet they can also reinforce the pattern and become a crutch for self sabotage; simply a means to rationalize and justify our poor decisions and lack of action, that cause us to stop short over and over. They allow us to choose those decisions that keep us running in circles instead forward.
The reality is, I am not lazy, I simply choose to be sometimes. It is natural to be lazy, for me. It is natural to seek the path of less resistance. We like, water, like electricity, anything that moves and changes, seek the easiest, fastest way. Sometimes the mind says the easiest way is simply to quit and tell ourselves we are just not good or strong enough. You know the rest…
So why is that? Are we not strong enough or good enough? That is part of it. Yes, I just said that. Change is hard and it takes practice to establish a mindset and an operating system that can drive you through the hardest of the hard. Discipline, determination, and perseverance take effort, time and practice to develop. Changing our patterns is definitely not the path of least resistance, but the reward is worth it.
So get off your lazy ass and come back for part 8…
I will dive into how to trudge ahead when we start falling away…
Talk Soon,
Kevin W @LEAP272
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