![]() Self-acceptance is the way out of the conundrum, but it’s counter-intuitive. Want to start a business? There are measurable benchmarks you can reach, you just have to want it enough.īut want to stop being anxious and stop procrastinating on those goals? Well, then wanting to stop being anxious about them is likely to just make you more anxious. Want to run faster? Set a goal, then go out and achieve it. In external aspects of one’s identity, desire is useful. ![]() After all, if you weren’t such a fuck up, you wouldn’t have to spend all day wishing you didn’t feel like a fuck up, would you? Wanting to stop believing such things only serves as more evidence of how screwed up you are. You believe everything you do sucks and that you’re more or less screwed in life. Let’s say you have low self-esteem and a general self-loathing about yourself. Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down, and for some reason, we seem to have forgotten that that’s OK. ![]() ![]() I rarely do - or if I do, I’m sure to add some explanation or a few useful ideas.īut the point remains: what a lot of people now identify as “ major life problems” are really the natural ebbs and flows of life. ![]() I find myself wanting to write this at least five times a day in reply to reader emails. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |