Today, I legit stared at lifeless sentences that needed to be cut out, but insisted that I could breathe life into my already dead words. I was so focused on not starting over that I had convinced myself that although my editor had already declared these paragraphs totaled it wasn’t actually that bad and if I could just bandage it up enough it would all be okay.
Today, I realized the choking feeling that arises from the depths of your belly and crawls up your throat in efforts to threaten you with lies.
Fear is stupid.
The funny part is that I don’t actually fear the change. I want it, in fact I need it, but I fear the effort it will take, the nights and hours that it will add to my everyday schedule, and the difficulties and temporary road blocks that might arise after I have made this decision, and I have made my decision.
If taking the necessary steps, regardless of the time and effort it will take, will even provide an opportunity of improvement then it is and will always be worth it.
So today, I would like to encourage you. If you have been staring at a broken system, relationship, or you are staring in the mirror looking at a broken reflection, do not settle. Starting over is scary. Change is not easy, but you are not just promising yourself better days but guaranteeing a fight for your happiness and improvement.
1 Corinthians 9:24, NIV: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.”
You wouldn’t participate in a race without the intention to win, so why would you live a life without the intention of having the best outcomes possible?
Restart, refresh, and rewrite every narrative that you must in order to get where you want.
