This One Thing is Holding You Back from Getting What You Want

Every day you wake up and go to war against yourself. It may be a war that plays out in the shadows of your mind, below the level of your conscious thinking, but it is a constant struggle nonetheless.

One of the biggest ongoing battles of this war is between your perception of who you currently are and the idealized version of what you believe you should be.

It is fought against the backdrop of your own personal expectations and the external expectations that you’ve internalized over time from a world that has defined “success” by having it all figured out right here, right now.

How you equip yourself for this daily fight and the resources you choose will have a direct result on how successful you can be at defeating the enemy. But first, let’s get a crystal-clear definition of who this enemy is.

The enemy is your dependence on outcome.

You have spent years developing a vision for:

· Who you believe you should be

· What you should do

· What you have

In doing so, your gaze is focused on a distant place in the future where all your hopes and dreams await. In your mind’s eye, the ideal life you’ve always envisioned will be eagerly anticipating your arrival.

Author Brian Tracy identifies this mythical place as “Someday Isle.” As in,

Progress knows an army of familiar enemies, but few are as devastating to your long-term growth than deferring your dreams to some unspecified future and staking your happiness to the dependence on a particular outcome.

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