The secret to achieving what you want is to believe you are the type of person who would accomplish it, that the achievement is ‘like you.’ So what’s stopping you? It could be a lack of motivation, just don’t care enough, maybe you’ve got an excuse? Well, do you want to know the truth? The reason we slack off, procrastinate, and don’t take the step into the unknown is: we worry we aren’t good enough. Say you are trying to be healthier, but you love a can of Coca Cola. You give up the soft drinks and start to drink water, but when you have water in your hand, you never feel the same ease? There is a voice in your head that says this isn’t you, you like tasty things? What about the Coca-cola, that’s more your speed? This is plain, boring, what must other people think? Do they think I’m trying to be better than them? That I’m full of myself drinking this water!? Just get a coke, a coke zero then? That’s like you, like everyone else, it’s like you to give up, to fail. We don’t have a moti…
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