Today I Have Not Been On My Game.
Mentally, My Brain has Not Been There.
Focus has been a Struggle.
Trying to Get Moving on the Projects I have has been Slow.
It has felt like there is a Gigantic Gap that is Blisteringly Painful to Notice.
It also Feels like there are so many things I "Should"...
But The Truth Is That I Will Not Do Them All.
I Will Do My Cornerstone Actions.
Spending time with My Spouse.
Writing.
Running.
Prayer.
Other things will Go Undone Though.
Some of those things I Really "Do" Want to Do Though.
Which Creates an Interesting Trap that We Must Be Wary of on the Path to Progress.
When there are Things We "Want" to Do...
Thing We Know We "Should" Do...
Either in Reality or by Our Own Perception of What "Should" Means...
But Those Things Do Not Get Done...
Often, there is Some Things We Feel which becomes Dangerous.
Guilt.
Dread.
Shame.
Disappointment.
Humiliation.
Discouragement.
Self-Reproach.
Unworthiness.
All of these are Absolutely Normal to Feel.
We are Human, and there is Nothing Wrong with Having these Emotions.
The Trap, However, is Allowing these Emotions to Dictate Our Future Actions...
And Perhaps Worse...
Our Identity.
Just because We Have Emotions Does Not "Make" Those Emotions Us.
Our Identity is Significantly More than Our Emotions Could Ever Hope to Be.
We Also Do Not Need to Allow Our Emotions to Become the Determiner of Our Actions.
We can Act with Any and All Emotions in Any Direction We So Choose.
But when We Allow Our Emotions to Control Our Behavior and Identity...
It Quickly Becomes a Vicious Cycle.
We Miss the Mark We Hope to Attain in Life...
We Identity Ourselves as things such as "Failures", "Cowards", "Hopeless", "Shameful", "Guilty", "Disappointments", etc.
Which then becomes the "Reason" that We Fail to Do the Things We Want in the Future.
The Cycle Occurs Again and Again.
Each Time the Evidence Builds Up...
Which Cements the Identity Further...
Leading to Us Continuing to Act in Ways that Builds Further Evidence.
We Become Self-Fulfilling Prophecies.
The Authors of a Horror Story or Tragedy.
But Here's What We Must Learn...
We are Human.
We are Not Perfect.
None of Us Are.
Myself Included.
We Can And Will Fail on the Path Towards the Progress We Seek.
It Will Feel Bad.
Perhaps It Will Feel Awful.
All of that is Absolutely Normal...
All of that Still Does Not Need to Determine Your Future.
You Are the Author of Your Story...
But instead of Ink on a Page...
You Write with the Actions You Take.
You Can Begin to Tell A New Story Anytime You Wish.
Will Every Step Go Perfectly?
No.
It Will Not.
That is Still Normal.
Do Not Let a Misstep...
Or Two...
Or Ten...
Or Hundred...
Or Thousand...
Prevent You From Standing Back Up Again.
Every Hero since the Beginning of Time has Failed Along their Path.
But the Heroes We Remember are the Ones Who Got Up and Continued Forth.
When we Allow these Emotions to Sit...
And Fester...
All it Accomplishes is Creating a Vicious Cycle which Pulls Us Further into an Abyss of Our Own Creation.
So Decide Something Different.
Perhaps Today Has Not Been Perfect.
Maybe the Rest of the Day Will Not be Great.
That is Ok.
Stand Back Up as Quickly as You Can.
Take Small Steps...
Tiny Steps if You Must.
Progress is Made Step by Step.
Moment by Moment.
Even Tiny Progress is Progress.
Often, the Tortoise Beats the Hare Simply by Continuing Forth.
Little by Little.
Step by Step.
It is Ok to Feel the Emotions...
Understand the Emotions...
Then, Decide to Take Action on the Path Toward Your Progress.
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