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There’s a version of you that has to go…
I’m talking about the patterns you keep defending.
The habits you keep excusing.
The identity you keep dragging around like it still serves you.
It doesn’t!
I’ve had to face this more than once. Sitting there realizing the same shit that once helped me survive was now the exact thing holding me back. My mindset… my reactions… the way I’d shut down or lash out or avoid what needed to be faced.
At some point you stop being a victim of it and start becoming a participant in it.
That’s the hard truth nobody wants to say out loud.
It’s easier to hold onto the old version of yourself because it’s familiar. Even if it’s dysfunctional as hell it still feels safe in a twisted way.
But safe isn’t always healthy…
If you don’t make the decision to tear that version of you down piece by piece it will slowly start tearing your life down instead.
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That old you will wreck your relationships and sabotage your growth.
It’ll keep you stuck in cycles you swear you’re trying to break.
You don’t outgrow it by accident but you destroy it on purpose.
You call yourself out. You take ownership. You sit in the discomfort instead of running from it. You do the work even when you don’t feel like it.
That’s where the shift happens.
Not in a perfect breakthrough but in the quiet decisions where you choose different.
You can’t carry who you used to be into the life you say you want. That version of you will keep pulling you back every single time.
So yeah it might feel like you’re losing a part of yourself. Good!
Some parts were never meant to come with you.
The question is simple…
What part of the old you are you still protecting that you know damn well needs to go?
Sit with that…
Until tomorrow!
Jeff
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