APX-VI-0008
“I've been using my past as a reason not to try.”
Your past is real. What happened to you is real. But using it as a reason not to try is a choice you're making right now, in the present. That choice belongs to you, not your history.
Your Practice
Write down the thing you've been avoiding and the past event you tie to it. Ask honestly: is the past event the real reason, or is the past event a story that makes not trying feel justified? Pick one small action toward the avoided thing. Take it today.
The Architects
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
Abraham Lincoln, Speech on internal improvements, U.S. House of Representatives, June 20, 1848 (Collected Works, Vol. I)