I would forgive you for reading a few personal development blog posts
and coming away from the experience more troubled than relieved. After
all,
*Why don’t you own a business?
*Isn’t it about time you traveled the world?
Those things will happen, of course — right after you sign up for the email list.
Phew. Thank God all I have to do to solve my problems is click a button.
In a perfect world, right?
Actually, it’s not so far off
The most frustrating aspect of the
you-don’t-just-click-a-button-to-solve-your-problems world is…the truth
isn’t that different. Small changes in personal behavior do lead to big
changes.
You hear it all the time because it’s true: the most challenging
barriers to personal change are self-created. Humans have a fantastic
capacity for internally-generated excuses inventing and assigning
external blame. These excuses protect us from our fear of failure…by
protecting us from failure…by protecting us from even trying in the
first place.
It’s not even a “matter-of-fact-hey-this-can-happen” issue. Big
changes cannot happen without small changes. The entire published works
of Tolstoy could never exist without a rough draft first page,
handwritten somewhere back in 19th-century-Russia.
Prove it to yourself
There wouldn’t happen to be any goals in your life that you’ve been
meaning to do for a long time despite no recorded progress…would