Rewiring.

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9 years ago

It's been a while since I've been socially active here. It's been a critical time for me though. Discovering in this last month that as much as I wanted to deny it, I was trying to do too many things at once. Since that discovery I've been going through a lot of trail and error and developing better habits in my life.

I came across a book that has literally changed me. As a chronic workaholic and perfectionist I've been going through an up hill battle my whole life... Until I read. "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore Ph.D.

I highly recommend it! It clearly gives the tools to overcome negative tendencies and habits that sabotage efforts.

Social and cultural conditioning from childhood plays a major role in my tendencies. At the age of nine and forward, spending every day afraid to do anything but work. Feeling unnatural guilt for socializing and playing. Only getting recognition and comfort from doing household duties or schoolwork.

For the longest time I didn't know that associating comfort and happiness with work alone was a bad thing. Or that defining the entirety of my worth as a person by my work was something I desperately needed to unlearn!

I want to point out though that there was the best of intentions behind my upbringing... And for that I am forever grateful.

At some point though evaluating said upbringing is a necessary part of improving the present. It wasn't all bad, quite the contrary. Much of what I learned as a child has made it easy to be open-minded and endlessly curious.

I knew several years ago that I needed to rewire some of my habits to be successful... But at that time, I didn't have a clue where to start or how to find the tools to do such rewiring.

Finally finding a solution has made September a whirlwind of a month and I am glad to finally be working toward a brighter tomorrow. Able to make actionable progress here at WA and within my chosen niche. All starting with overcoming a MAJOR hindrance to success.

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October is full of potential and exciting possibilities! I hope everyone here at WA is doing great! Here's to an awesome month for us all! :) Cheers!