How we achieve hard things

Even a good psychotherapist only has a small constellation of “facts” about us, the general truths and trends of everyday life and how we might best fit it all together. But their perspective is highly limited.

Persistence is an invisible force within us that others may or may not recognize.

And it’s always ours to own and leverage.

It’s connected to our need to create sovereignty.

Having clarity of purpose is also ours to develop, through leveraging our personal agency.

And these invisible forces are what’s needed to achieve hard things.

• If we take ourselves more seriously, and others’ ideas about what decisions to make with a grain of salt, we’ll be much happier with our journey. 

Over time, we’ll learn to love, accept, and respect our intuition, our soul’s whispers.

And we’ll get confirmation from retrospect faster, because more often we’re making choices in alignment with our best self. 

• Our life journey is designed to be as unique as our fingerprints and it’s up to us to understand to where we’re being called.

We do this through activating our agency and following through on our choices, regardless of how windy or difficult a path they put us on. 

Sovereignty over personal agency is our birthright, notwithstanding social-relational conditions.

Standing in our sovereignty by taking persistent action gives us the most fulfilling life.

--Julie