Keeping the promises you make to yourself.

Have you laid back one night after the lights have gone out, thinking about the troubles in your life, and then it finally dawned on you,

“I am the problem.”

Self reflection will help you realize you're the one holding you back.

I am the reason I am in this mess, I’m behind on my homework or deliverables because I couldn’t get myself to do it, I let person X treat me like that, I am the reason I failed that exam, etc.

The pain of knowing you're your own enemy, dragging yourself by your own baggage, fear, trauma, shame, guilt. To know that it's your same old self holding yourself back is painful.

The disappointment, regret, and resentment; not at anyone else but yourself.

It'd be easier if we all had someone else to blame, right?

Your heart aches because you know you could have done better but didn't.

Your face is full of shame because you knew the truth but still turned your face against it. Your body shakes because you gave in to the fear.

You want to cry sometimes, to punish yourself for not keeping the promises you make to yourself, to know that you knew better but still made the wrong life choices.

You sit back and wonder how much you hate yourself for not doing good by you. And you know clearly,

“I am better than this.”

But when do you finally say “enough!”?

When do you really get fed up with the back and forth and break lose of your old habits holding you back?

When is the rebirth? When do your body, mind, and soul accept the newly reformed version of yourself thats reborn, enlightened, evolved, and learned to do better over the years letting go of all the old baggage?

When do fear, and uncertainty, finally let you go as you taste the unknown waters?

When do you finally find a balance in this new blooming self, to smoothly float in your new refined self that is constantly working to improve yourself each day, to become a better person, for you and those around you?