Why do we fight ourselves so much? It seems like we are each in a constant battle with our personal leanings and desires. We are always trying to change ourselves—or even worse—others.
Don’t misunderstand me. Change is absolutely possible with each one of us. Moreover, it is necessary and good. However, if you do not have the right mindset when you are working on a change, then your journey will feel like a battle—full of obstacles and hardships—and you will more than likely give up before too long.
However, if you see the change not as something you have to do, but something you want to do—not a “I have to lose weight,” but “I choose to lose weight”—then you are no longer in a battle with your own urges, fighting a goal some anonymous someone laid down on top of you. Instead, you are in charge. You are the one making a conscious decision to change. You are not powerless against your urges but rather you are a student of yourself. You study your habits and analyze your pros and cons. You make a plan of action to put your changes into affect. You are the master of your own destiny.
This might seem like a game of semantics for you. This might seem like a waste of time and that it does not matter, but the shift in your subconscious mind that this change of thought process makes is gigantic. When you are no longer the victim in your own head, you no longer have any excuses as to why you haven’t accomplished something.
The only excuse is YOU. You didn’t make it a priority. You didn’t make the time. And that is okay. You truly do not have to do anything in your life. Everything you do is a choice.
Stop making excuses for yourself and fully take responsibility. You are in charge.
Live Life,
Bert Oliva