Seeing the Gift in Hardship

Life doesn't gives us everything we want, but that is part of what we need

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There are a number of common deterrents to creating powerful change in your life:

• Feeling that the effort is pointless
• Resisting the effort
• Frustration with yourself or others
• Disliking the activity
• Feeling an urge or compulsion to do the old habit

Each of these can derail your efforts to create something new. And to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with any of these—they’re wonderfully human traits. But to create powerful change, we have to learn to work with them.