You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

y picking fights with people who can help you, by inspiring you to
procrastinate, make terrible investments, drink your face off the night before
(or morning of) an important meeting, etc.
When you change who you’re being, you’re basically killing off your old
identity, which completely freaks your subconscious self out. Change hurls
you into the unknown and puts you at risk for all sorts of loss and, of course,
all sorts of unthinkable awesomeness, which is why it brings your biggest
fears to the surface.
Your Little Prince is desperately trying to keep you in a safe, known space,
otherwise known as your comfort zone, but if the truths you’re running your
life on no longer fit who you’re becoming, it’s like trying to squeeze into the
snow pants you wore as a kid when you’re thirty-six years old. Not so comfy
after all. Yet we do it all the time because even though they cut off our
circulation and hold us back from who we so desperately want to become, the
puffy pants are familiar, cozy, and feel safer than trying on an outfit that
we’ve never worn before. We are so attached to the unhelpful familiar, in fact,
that we will spend our valuable, very finite time here on Earth crafting
excuses to keep ourselves right where we are, instead of leaping into the
glorious unknown and growing into who we’re really meant to be.
The walls of your comfort zone are lovingly decorated with your lifelong
collection of favorite excuses.
Love your Little Prince for being a great pal by trying to protect you, but
it’s time to step into your power, put on your grown-up crown, and take your
kingdom back.
Along with our overbearing Little Prince, the quest for Earthly security
holds people back from living the lives of their dreams more than almost
anything else, and the ridiculous part is it doesn’t even exist! People will
spend lifetimes slogging it out in “secure” jobs they hate, staying in
relationships with people they don’t like rather than risk being alone, never
spending money on anything fun in order to save it for a rainy day, meanwhile
we are flying through outer space in an infinite Universe on a planet prone to
earthquakes and plagues and ice ages. That secure job at that secure company
could dry up, some lunatic could run up and start beating you to death with a
tree branch—anything could happen at any time.
Now, of course, focusing on this wouldn’t be helpful in living a productive
or happy life because we’d be crouched under tables and clinging to buildings
while trying to walk down the street, but I’m reminding you of it in hopes of
liberating you from the pointless, oftentimes life-sucking trap of sacrificing
living your dreams for false security. To free your heart up to follow your joy