The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How to discover your hidden obstacles to primal progress.

This time of year is all about knowing what we want for ourselves. We rightfully accept the window for change and wonder what kind

of transformation we're ready for. What measures we're willing to commit to? What possibilities

exist if we're willing to go down that road, and so we daydream.

We imagine what it would be like to feel better, fitter, healthier than we do right now.

We think about how life would be different.

We start to mentally put the pieces into place, how we'd go about this endeavor.

How bold are we willing to be?

Where will the energy, support, ideas, and resources to fuel this venture come from?

Maybe it's at this stage, or maybe even after we get started, but all too often, some other element eventually weaves its way into the picture.

Self-doubt, pessimism, compromise, sabotage begins trickling into our process.

Our hidden, well-worn obstacles start popping up.

It seems like a universal dictum.

When you start to make positive change, you're going to get pushback.

It's not a magical force thing.

The fact is, you're rocking the boat.

Your attempt to change, no matter how small, is throwing off the dysfunctional equilibrium you've been living with.

Somewhere along the line, you got used to how you live and how you feel.

Inertia is as much as psychological as a physical phenomenon.

Change your ways, and it's as if all the mental bogies and old patterns wiggle their way

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