Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about the concept

called homeostasis, which is the reason why you keep backsliding in your life. There's a thorny little problem that sticks in our side when we try to self actualize. And that's the problem of backsliding, which is, you know,

when you try to make that change in your life that you really get excited about making and

then you make that change and it looks like it's working for a while.

And then what happens?

You slide back to your old ways.

And then you make that change again, again excited this time,

redoubling your efforts,

and then a couple of months later you're back in your old ways.

And this just keeps going on and on and on.

And not only is it extremely frustrating,

but it also makes you very pessimistic about the possibility of creating

change in your life.

And this is why sometimes people like to rag on self-help or personal development is because

they've been trying to make changes, but then really they haven't been able to make any changes stick and they're just fed up with this whole backsliding process.

So it's a very real problem, it's a very real problem.

It's a very big problem.

And you're going to encounter a lot of backsliding

on your way towards getting somewhere far and high

with your self actualization work.

So to help you along though, maybe ease some of that frustration,

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