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It’s Time to Face the Truth.
Don’t wait for bad things to happen, start now.
Why is it that it’s when we are at our lowest point everything starts making sense? At least for me, it does.
Sometimes I am living life on autopilot, acting without thinking about the consequences of my choices. But then something happens that jolts me out of that autopilot mode.
When I get that jolt, my self-awareness kicks into overdrive. I start questioning everything I am doing and it all starts to click. I uncover a lot of the root beliefs for why I’m acting a certain way.
I know I’m lucky when it comes to this. Some people wouldn’t know self-awareness if it hit them in the face at 60mph.
But, why does it take a major life event to shake us into this mode of being aware of our thoughts, beliefs, and actions? Shouldn’t these be qualities we are uncovering about ourselves each day?
My own experience
It took me going through a hard moment to realize why I don’t have many friends. I always thought it was because nobody understood me. I thought there was nobody out there that had the same interests, hopes, and values as I did.
All this time I would shut out friendships because I was judging them under a microscope. I would see so many flaws before even…
