Are You Sure You Want a Better Life?

Are you sure you want to improve your life?

Are you sure you want to take the path of most resistance?

Are you sure you want to do what's good instead of what's easy?

Are you sure you want to do hard things when you can do nothing?

Are you sure you want to make clear what you are hiding in the fog?

Are you sure you want to confront and figure out how to overcome your fears?

Are you sure you want to make the necessary sacrifices to create your ideal future?

Are you sure you want to know your problems and do the work to understand them deeply?

Are you sure you want to cultivate the awareness to notice all the stupid stuff you do?

Are you sure you want to forgo grabbing your phone so that you're better off in the future?

Are you sure you want to create clear priorities to live by when you have to live up to them?

Are you sure you want to admit when you're wrong, even when it's painful or to your disadvantage?

Are you sure you're willing to fail repeatedly and keep failing until you learn from your failures?

Are you sure you want to cultivate the courage to set up boundaries and defend them as best you can?

Are you sure you want to deal with all those people who try to drag you down when you begin to rise?

Are you sure you want to irreversibly cut yourself off from certain choices, outcomes, or experiences?

Are you sure you want to go into the darkness, the land of the stranger, to discover what you need to know?

Are you sure you have what it takes to do boring things consistently when you could do much easier things instead?

Are you sure you want to stop living on autopilot and make conscious and intentional choices every day of the week?

Are you sure you're willing to accept the truth and reality of a situation and stop living in a world of delusion and fantasy?

Are you sure you want to sacrifice the relationships, friendships, and people that won't join you on your path to where you're going?

Are you sure you want to take responsibility for your life instead of blaming other people, "the system", or things for your problems?

If you aren't, maybe you don't want a better life.

Maybe you just like to dream of one.