This is Optimal Living Daily, How I'm Getting Past Internal Resistance so I can live a life I

Love by Elizabeth MacDonald with TinyBuda.com, and I'm Justin Mollock, your host and narrator.

And now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

How I'm getting past internal resistance so I can live a life I love by Elizabeth

MacDonald with tiny buddha.com.

Quote, your actions are your only true belongings.

Alan Locos

This is not a piece about a person who has already finished her journey. I'm not here to tell

you that I've emerged from a dark place into a place of ease, or that I've discovered a

profound new way of being that shields me from daily stresses. I wish I could tell you those

things. I love to read about successes like that. Instead, I'm in a messy stage of my

journey, holding on to the glimmers of joy that I feel throughout each day, dreaming and journaling

and not getting enough sleep. I'm transitioning to a different life path as we speak. I take each day

as its own adventure, knowing that I'll feel any combination of

boredom, happiness, depression, anxiety, and curiosity, knowing that it's okay for a change to be

complicated, that it's okay to be confused one minute and excited the next, as long as I keep asking questions and keep

looking for answers. There's no avoiding this part of the journey, the part where you peel

back the layers of who you were and make room for who you will be, where you shake free from the

comforts and limiting beliefs you've been living under, where you consider if the life you've

been living truly reflects who you are. This is the scary part, the part where you feel guilty

or ashamed or sad that it took you this long to acknowledge your dreams. It's hard to know when

this part will end. All you can do is keep moving and know that those answers will come.

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