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Backsliding – Protecting yourself from yourself – Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn #54

I had a really great meeting with a client where she finally realized that knowing what needs to change is not enough and that everyone backslides until they’ve practiced the thing enough to become different. I want to share how one simple perspective shift helped me accept that sometimes I get in my own way – and that’s ok.

Back when I was first diving into personal growth, I kept getting stuck between Step 2 and Step 3 of the stages of learning - identifying strategies and practicing them.

I would notice something needed to change. For example: being kinder to others when they woke me up. Having narcolepsy, I’m often emotionally dysregulated – but that’s not a free license to be a jerk to people. So, I would identify a strategy to try, practice it once or twice. Then, someone would wake me up… and I’d forget 🤷.

The Counting Crows have a song that helped me with this. The lyric goes: How’m I gonna keep myself away from me?

That’s exactly what I needed to do – keep myself ‘now’ away from old-me’s way of thinking and doing. Ironically, just singing the lyric in my head helped me a lot.

Then that morphed into, Have yourself a nice steamy mug of STFU 🤭

I would say that to myself EVERY morning as I made my coffee. Reminding me that I needed to keep myself away from others as much as myself… until my dopamine came online.

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