To Have What You Want, You Must Give-Up What’s Holding You Back

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If you pay attention to your life, you’ll begin to see the patterns.

In 2005, the National Science Foundation published an article showing that the average person has between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before.

The things running through your head are the same things that were running through your head yesterday.

The conversations you’re having with yourself are the same conversations you’ve been having with yourself.

You know what to do.

You know what you want.

Said Tim Grover in his book, Unstoppable, “Don’t think. You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?”

Fear Of The Unknown Is The Foundation Of All Fears

According to some scholars, fear of the unknown is likely the foundation of all other fears. In order to avoid the unknown, most people bail on their dreams in exchange for remaining in lives they hate!

In the mega-selling book (over 6 million sold), The Easy Way To Quit Smoking, Allen Carr explains that one of the primary reasons people stay in addiction is because they fear the unknown. Even though people know their addiction is literally killing them, it has become their homeostasis. To not be in the addiction is frightening, because you have no idea what that looks or feels like anymore.

Even though you KNOW life could be fundamentally better, you hold tightly to what you have. You hold-on to what you have while knowing that it is the very thing stopping you from getting what you really want.

And so the thoughts recur, daily. 95% of those thoughts and cycles continue, all the while you intuitively know that you are making a fool’s bargain.

You’re giving up your dreams and your greatest potential for something you know isn’t serving you.

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