... are the labels you attach to yourself. The ones that give you those default excuses.
"I can't do this."
"I'm not really comfortable doing that."
"I just don't see myself doing it."
"It's more you, than me. I'm a pretty quiet person."
"I would but I just don't have time." "I'm afraid (enter reason here)."
"I'm too busy already."
The reasons. The excuses.
As a child we were unable to write, to read, to ride a bicycle, to even walk. At no point in time did you say "I can't do this." ..?And quit. It would be unheard of. Imagine a parent explaining "well my child decided that walking was just not his thing, and ever since he's been a crawler." Of course you haven't. Why? Because it would be ridiculous, and we all understand that children have to be pushed to learn and pushed to do things that are necessary to grow. Just because it may be DIFFICULT doesn't mean it isn't necessary. So as adults...what makes us attach labels and notions and ideas that we have completely matured and no longer need to learn, grow or change? Why limit yourself? You will only go as far as you are willing to grow. Let me repeat that... YOU WILL ONLY GO, AS FAR AS YOU ARE WILLING TO GROW.
Make up your mind to expand your vision. Take ACTION to reach it. I make an effort to listen to audiobooks, mentors, podcasts, journal, meditate, pray, exercise, write...and aim for it daily. This past couple of weeks is me getting back into it full force, and suddenly things started changing in my life this month, because I pushed myself to not accept the way life had been going, and to get out of my own damn way. I had to humble myself to ask for direction. To listen. To know that I didn't know it all. To start learning again!
Don't accept what you are now. You should be evolving and growing. Not the same person you were last year, doing the same thing you have been, going to the same places, listening to the same thing, you should be a different and better version of yourself, and the only way to do that is by doing SOMETHING different. Make a call to action for yourself. If you don't have a life you want, quit making excuses and do something about it. Renew your vision, get off your couch, turn off the tv and start growing again!
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