Who’s draining your joy?

Avoidance requires distractions, and distractions are exhausting.

We don’t always avoid the truth because we want to.

In fact, most often, it’s because we’re persisting in what we believe to be true that causes us to ignore the reality that we’re facing.

Like investing in someone who is at war with themselves.

Or expecting opportunities to work out when the others involved have a different agenda.

Or wanting to believe that we’re significant to someone when we never were because they were chasing significance in something or someone else.

And of course, when we deny the reasons for not achieving something by insisting that it was due to actions from others rather than accepting that we didn’t quite commit to it the way we should have.

Protecting ourselves from admitting the truth is only necessary when we attach shame to having gotten something wrong.

That shame is not because of how others would react, but because of how we judge ourselves relative to how much weight we place on the opinions of others.

Life gets a whole lot simpler and more fulfilling when our opinion about ourselves matters more than what others think of us.

That’s when the truth becomes easier to embrace because instead of viewing ourselves with shame, we see less than ideal outcomes as feedback on how to raise our game.

Unfortunately, most of us are playing our game by someone else’s rules and then blaming them for why we’re unsuccessful at achieving our goals.

Maybe that’s why you’re tired before even stepping out of bed.

It’s time to own your life.

It always starts with you.

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