Often when we are striving for something new we are working toward things we have never achieved before. When we accomplish the goal it can propel us to try and achieve more.
One of the downsides of success is believing that it should be our new normal and anything falling short feels like a failure because we now know of what we are capable.
Today we are going to tap for the fear that success will bring higher (and unreasonable) expectations of ourselves.
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In order to know what we want we have to name what we don’t want. This means looking at our lives and naming the painful things we are experiencing.
We do a very good job of deluding ourselves about how bad things really are in our life. Because of this we steer clear of naming how we want things to change because it requires us to be honest with ourselves which can be difficult.
Today we are going to tap for the fear of having to be honest with ourselves, recognizing how painful things truly are right now.
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It is all too easy to beat ourselves up for past mistakes. Sometimes it even feels good to beat ourselves up.
But in the end it isn’t at all helpful.
Today we are going to tap to be easy with ourselves and accepting of our past mistakes.
When we are working toward something new we often have to take on new tasks and projects. The problem is that our life is already too busy and there doesn’t seem to be time for one more thing.
Today we are going to tap for when it feels like there is just isn’t room in your schedule for anything else.
Making progress is really encouraging. We feel better about ourselves and it gives us momentum to take more action.
One of the side effects of our success is that others may raise their expectations of us.
This can be both flattering and feel like a burden. Part of us can be fearful that others will expect this new level of success from us all the time.
Today we are going to tap for the fear that others will expect more from us if we succeed today.
On some level we all know that we need to be able to trust our own hearts. But the heart is so irrational it often feels like it is calling us to make choices that have no chance of working out.
We shouldn’t trust our hearts blindly, but we need to trust them more. Today we are going to tap to trust our hearts more.
We have failed in the past and that failure has hurt. Because we have experienced failure in our past it can make us gun shy of taking bold action in the future. When this happens we become hesitant or even stop taking action at all.
Today we are going to tap for those times when our fear of the pain of failure is greater than our desire to take action.
Moving forward takes work and effort. Sometimes this effort is so great that it becomes tiring to the point where we just want to give up.
Today we are going to tap for when we feel so tired that we no longer feel like putting forth any effort.
Our vision is so limited. We can only see what is right in front of us. And often that is an imperfect view of what is truly going on.
Today we are going to tap to remind ourselves that there is so much more at work that what we perceive in this moment.
Sometimes we feel like we have to work so much harder than those around us. Others have opportunity, support, and infrastructure around them that makes achieving their goals so much easier.
Today we are going to tap for the feeling that comes along with feeling like we are working harder than others to have the same things.