You're not an elephant

Ever seen that graphic depicting a baby elephant who's shackled to a single wooden stake in the ground? And as a baby, that stake and chain is plenty to keep him from moving.

Then he grows up into a full-sized elephant...

And he just stands there with the stake-and-chain attached to his ankle.

Despite weighing 1000s of pounds, despite having the ability to break that shackle any time and simply walk in a different direction... he doesn't. He just stands there. Because he's been conditioned to believe that he can't break the shackle for so long that it's just internalized.

People are kinda like this with their self-destructive patterns.

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Whether it's the way they argue with their wives, their drinking, their sedentary lifestyle, or that porn addiction that's been lingering for so many years.

People stay stuck in the same patterns for years, and those patterns become so deeply ingrained that it's hard for them to realize that they're not stuck and that they can walk in a different direction whenever they choose to. But they don't believe it. They don't see that possibility. They're so stuck in their ways that they'll live the rest of their lives like the elephant who could walk away any time... but never does.

Thankfully, you're different.

I know because you're here reading this.

And I just want to drive this point home...

That if you don't like something, you can change it. And you really have to believe that you CAN change. That's where real change begins. First, you've gotta become fed up with your own shit and decide "enough is enough!", then you start believing a bit that you can change... and then everything else you do to actually change flows forth naturally from there.

Truth is, if you don't believe you can, you wont.

You'll just stay stuck, like the elephant.

But you're capable of more than that.

You're not an elephant.

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