It can be difficult to imagine our lives looking any way other than they do now.

We get used to the patterns that we live in, and so we continue to live out a series of habits and the things that we do, the way that we speak,

the people we spend time around, the way that we enrich ourselves, the way that we distract ourselves.

And because of that, we stop paying attention a lot of times to how we are actually moving through life.

Because of that, that means that kind of

the organized nature of our environment tends to influence

the course of our lives more than we realize and whenever that, we stop feeling like we have say in our lives.

And whenever we stop feeling like we have say in our lives, then what seems, quote unquote,

normal seems like all that there is. And so it makes it difficult for us to be able to feel like we can really just grab a hold and make actual changes.

Like if you sit back and you think about like all of the stories you've seen no doubt

on podcasts on social media books I mean everything is a transformation story in this

space anyway you know everything is saying you know it's always a story of someone saying hey I was X and now I'm Y. I was stressed out and anxious and depressed now I'm happy and feel like I'm thriving and I'm living a new life.

I was working a job that I hated and was deeply unhappy and unwell and I quit that job I went into my passion and now I'm

feeling fulfilled and I'm thriving. You know there's countless stories of those types of things out there.

But you know one of the things that isn't often talked about in those stories is

the actual process of change.

And that's not really talked about because it's not very romantic.

You know, whenever we hear the stories of people, their lives changing. It's always the shiny objects,

you know, it's always the, you know, the story of a character that's evolving and overcoming challenges and it's much more on the

overcoming challenges and succeeding aspect of things than the actual process of what was really happening day to day in a

person's life that allowed them to achieve that growth over a period of time.

And I think that an important thing to acknowledge

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