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How You Make Positive Lasting Life Changes
Change requires you to be an entirely different you. But to be who you’ve never been before you must do what you’ve never done before. And before you can do what you’ve never done before you must become someone you’ve never been before.
The Challenge To Change Is Letting Go
The challenge with change is letting go. Holding onto who you’ve become and what you’ve experienced along the way that has led you to this point in your life, is what makes change so difficult. You’re not asking yourself to just do something different. You’re asking yourself to be someone different. And being is completely different than doing.
The habits and patterns you’ve come to develop, count on, and identity with up to this point in your life, have not only led you “here” but they’ve also shaped who you believe you are. That’s why change is so difficult. You’re not asking yourself to do something different, you are asking yourself to be someone different.
You Must Stop Being Who You Are
In order to be someone different, you have to stop being who you currently are. Stop being me? You might say…