Why You “Just Can’t” Change Your Life

You skip this important step.

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I had an AHA moment a while ago.

You see, I’ve been wanting to change some things in my life for a while now.

I wish I managed my energy and time better.

I wish I had more willpower to eat healthily and exercise more.

I wish I was a better wife, one who doesn’t constantly nag her good husband.

I wish I could write more often, and grow my business, and see mom at least once a week, and have more patience when teaching my one-year-old new things.

No matter how hard I tried, though, for a long time, things stayed the same.

Tony Robbins says that change happens in the moment of decision. That it’s not really the change that takes time, but the decision to change.

This has always helped me before, but it didn’t work anymore. I woke up every day committed to at least one of those changes and I failed, I failed during that very day.

Was it willpower that I lacked? Was it desire? Was it that I didn’t prioritize things properly?

I read and I read, and I read about how to change my life and while everything was useful, nothing stuck, nothing spoke to me, nothing worked.