What has happened to the enthusiasm of the New Year?
So many people were all set to have the best year of their life and something happened, what was it?
It was habit, laziness, excuses, loneliness, pain, all the baggage that you took along with you because you were afraid to leave it behind.
You allowed all the old thinking back in because you just didn’t want to muster the energy and the will to confront it.
You kept the same old fears and negative thoughts, the same old recordings in your head that tell you that you can’t change, it is too hard, and there are too many things against you to make it happen.
Well, if you listened to that garbage you are right back where you started, or actually you are worse off because now you have reinforced those same old negative beliefs that you had last December and stomped on the fragile bud of optimism that was trying to poke it's head up from the dirt .
There are many opportunities to go back the way you came, it is easy, you’ve done it before, you know the way.
All you need to do is drop you head, let out a long sigh, think about how hard and unfair it all is and drag your sorry butt back to the living hell you claimed you wanted to escape.
Problems that you had yesterday won’t disappear because you don’t want them any more.
You have to confront them and make them move, you need to get in their face, push them out of the way.
They won’t leave on their own.
For a full week I checked to see if anyone was posting here and no one did.
Then when somebody finally did it was a plaintive cry of how they need more help, of how hard it is, of how life has conspired against them and now they don’t know what to do.
Well, all the sympathy in the world is not going to get you where you want to be.
You have to make the commitment to yourself, be accountable to yourself, be tough with yourself to make the changes happen.
No, it isn’t easy; did you think it would be?
If you need help it is fine to ask for it, but not until you have really made an effort; you are not children anymore.
Now get back into the game, you don't lose until you quit, and you can’t quit if you still have breath in your lungs, desire in you heart and a prayer on your lips.