Struggling to Stick to Your Goals?

Time to hold your kid-brain’s hand.

wormwood
5 min readJan 24, 2020

Adulting is nothing more than becoming our own parents.

I don’t mean turning into your parents, I mean taking over the job now that they’re off the hook.

Because when we pick off all the crusted BS we’ve caked around our sensitive cores, we discover the hard truth: It’s not fear of failure that holds us back, it’s fear of hard work.

That’s the human condition, we’re frail and we’ve invented a million things to help keep us that way. Why? Because it’s comfy AF.

Remember falling asleep wherever you pleased and having some trusted adult — not only protect you with their life — but also cart you to bed?

Those were the days.

But that all comes crashing down, incident by incident. Suddenly we’re being held responsible for our actions and hearing stuff like, “you know better”.

I do? What’s this horrible feeling?…oh, hi Shame.

so that’s how it is…

Taking responsibility for our own lives amid infinite factors out of our control is hard. Sprinkle in some existential questions, and well —…

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