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Three Reasons Your Life Isn’t Getting Any Easier
You’re pretty convinced that life is out to get you. Things aren’t getting any better and you wonder why the gods hate you.
Okay, let’s play along with this narrative. You’re right. There are definite reasons your life is at best a recurring nightmare; and at worst, swirling down the toilet bowl. If you’re actually serious about going over the reasons, they are as follows:
1. You don’t want to change
This is the cardinal sin. You want life to change but you think you can achieve that by being exactly who you are right now.
Did you ever consider that who you are as a person determines the life you will lead? If not, please do because anyone who ever did anything noteworthy was able to do it only because something inside of them changed.
Maybe you think that if you try to change yourself that means that you don’t love yourself. But that’s just a clever way of resisting change and the pain that comes with it.
It’s normal to resist change. It’s normal to resist pain. But you’re the one asking for life to be different! You want a better career, relationships and peace of mind but what you’ve been doing hasn’t worked, so now you have to do something different.
