How to Stop Sabotaging Your Beautiful Life and Keep Things Simple.

It’s a simple question with a hard answer.

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It’s the hardest question I’ve every heard @charliegilkey ask anyone:

“What if it was easy?”

I think the purpose of the question is to get ourselves out of our own way when we’re trying to accomplish something.

Unfortunately, I have a tendency to think I’m being efficient and focused when in fact — I’m not.

Why is simplicity so complicated?

Spoiler: it’s not. It’s just drawn that way.

Maybe you’ve heard some of these in your own internal monologue:

• Social pressure: “Keep up!”
• Internal pressure: “Do more!”
• The New Shiny: “Makes Everything Easier!”
• Capitalism: “Gotta have it!”

Add in the voice saying “stop whining — compared to the rest of the world, you’re on easy mode in the game of life!”

https://graymiller.medium.com/why-you-might-choose-to-play-life-on-hard-mode-b7b18c3177ca

My top three self-sabotage traps: