Getting Off Track Doesn’t Necessarily Mean The End Of Your Ambitions

Personal growth is never a straight path. For most changes, we need several attempts. Giving up after the first failure is, therefore, a mistake.

When we try to get rid of a bad habit or adopt new, positive behavior, we often believe in the beginning that we will only make constant progress.

You decide to go to a fitness study three times a week, and after a month you suddenly miss two days. We promise ourselves to write at least 1000 words every day but fail on the fourth day.

In such moments we doubt ourselves. What’s wrong with me, we ask ourselves.

The more this happens, the more our faith in ourselves fades. Probably we are simply not made for change, we think then.

We think this way because it seems that everyone else is much more disciplined and straightforward than we are.

But of course, that’s not true. We just don’t see the repeated failures and the daily struggle of others. If we knew that it is perfectly normal not to achieve goals at the first attempt, we would undoubtedly be less strict with ourselves.

If you fear to lose sight of your goal, read my article It’s Not Too Late To Start All Over Again.

René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.