What Happens When You Don’t Follow Your Own Standards?

Posted in Perspective · Self Improvement · Spiritual Guidance |  Email This Post | by James Rick

When you don’t follow through on your own standards, it’s like making a commitment with yourself and then breaking it. Anytime you break a commitment with yourself you feel a sense of disappointment. This self disappointment can erode self image making you feel even worse. If this has been going on for quite some time you might tell people you lack discipline, you are weak or lazy and even joke about it as a way to restore some sense of self image - when laziness becomes apart of your identity you might then feel it’s okay.

Forming an identity out of un-serving behaviors can be quite dangerous. A belief that you are your behaviors can lock you into a pattern that you may never get out of unless: a) you reach a bottom and decide enough is enough. Or b) you realize and embrace the idea that your potential is so much greater than what you are now displaying. When you can envision a reality beyond what you’re currently living, this potential reality can excite you with enough energy to aim higher and set new standards even if they are a more challenging way to live.

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