4 Challenges That Keep Us Stuck

Why do we get stuck in our daily routines?

Feeling stuck in any area of our life often indicates that we are defending an underlying fear.

This process mostly happens unconsciously, running on autopilot. If we are not aware of it, we cannot question it, and therefore we cannot change it. We unknowingly become prisoners of our own unconscious fears.

 Here are the top 4 challenges that can keep us stuck:

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1. 🤔 Lack of Awareness: We are often not consciously aware of what we are truly afraid of, what it specifically means for us, and the real reason behind it. The problem we think is the problem is rarely the actual problem; there is usually something deeper happening within our subconscious.

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2. 🔍 Unexamined Fear: Our subconscious programming runs on autopilot, treating fear as an undeniable fact. Because our mind is energy-efficient, it avoids expending energy questioning beliefs it has already established as 'true'.

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3. 🧠 Rationalizing Feelings: Our logical mind creates very convincing external reasons for why we are stuck. Humans naturally look for reasons outside of themselves as a protective mechanism to avoid facing uncomfortable emotions within.

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4. 🛑 Identity and Fear: Fear often becomes part of our identity, leading to self-sabotaging behaviors and habits, which become self-fulfilling prophecies. Humans will do almost anything to defend and stay consistent with their identity.

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I like to visualize a tangled ball of string. The string, representing us, has become knotted by our fears, making it difficult to understand the problem and find a way out of the mess. I have multiple exercises and tools for this, which I call "Untangling Your Conditioning" — breaking free from your patterns.

You can probably relate to the satisfaction of untangling all the knots from a ball of string? Now magnify that feeling x100 for doing that with yourself!

Stay Courageous

Dean Arcan