You are not going to want to do it.
It’s not going to feel natural.
You won’t think you have the time or the money or the patience, or even the energy.

Changing a life is hard.

And yeah, you’re not going to want to do it.

When hitting the gym stops being novel, writing the novel means less time online, and eating healthy turns out to take a lot more time at the store and stove.

Moving forward, changing anything, means digging in and digging deep and just putting in plain hard work. Deeply entrenched patterns of being, your “known normal”, the status quo – can talk you right out of motivation if you let them.

Let’s face it: it’s easier to stay stuck than to move forward.

When you decide to make a big change – to eat healthy or to pursue a dream or to live different in any way – it’s great. At first. It’s amazing, even. It’s all good.

Until it isn’t. Until it’s hard. Until it feels forced and just not natural.

The truth is that it’s not natural. Not yet, at least. It’s a change and it’s strange, and we humans seem to forget how long it really takes for new ways of being to become natural.

So just be prepared, is all I’m saying. Know it’s coming. That once the excitement and the newness start to wear off, once the motivation that exploded in your heart and mind dwindles down to a drip, you won’t feel like doing it.

But none of that means that you can’t do it.

You can know that you won’t feel like doing the work, and still do the work. You can know that you won’t want to eat one more salad, and still wash the greens and chop the veggies, and eat one more salad.

You can ignore the “I wants” and the “I don’t wants”, and still get on with the work.

You can ignore the part of you that tries to tell you you never really wanted to run that marathon in the first place.

You can trust the you who started the whole thing.

Yeah, that one. The one who was so sure and so excited and really does want to make this change. The one you promised that you’d do the work to make the dream happen.

You’re not going to want to do it.

But you can do it anyway.

Because you’re counting on you.

~xo,
LuAnne