How many times have you ever said, ‘this year, I will….?’ Yet, that thing you talk about all the time and say you want so badly either never happens, or that initial excitement leads to a false start.We make these promises to ourselves because there is a voice within us, a knowing, that this thing must happen, go away, or change for our overall betterment.It’s not that we don’t want whatever it is that we promised, wished, or prayed for, but for some reason, it keeps eluding us and we are back in the loop of just falling short.Even me writing down these words took me a multitude of attempts to get to putting pen to paper. I have the vision, the ideas, and maybe even the outline in my mind. I continuously ask myself why it takes so long to really start? The symphony of voices in my mind say, ‘no one cares what you have to say, or you’re not good enough or smart enough to do this.’ The negative self-talk plays on repeat until it becomes so deafening that the only way to stop it is to act. Now, the symphony sounds like hope, magic, and possibilities because I did what I thought I couldn’t. I followed through and the result was accomplishment and pride.Why do we deny ourselves what we so greatly desire? Too often, when we are wanting, and trying to change and upgrade a part of ourselves, be it physically, spiritually, or materially, our ego immediately jumps in to stop us because our egos are based in fear and any level of change is a threat to our primal sense of stability and comfort. Typically, this can be where we get in our own way and stop pursuing our goals.How can we move past this…
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