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I’m an Instagram addict. What should I do? Inspiration for what? For the life I was too busy watching other people live?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n We do this all the time. We take behaviors that sabotage us and wrap them in justifications that make them easier to live with. For years, I struggled with running. I told myself I wasn\u2019t built for it, that my body just didn\u2019t cooperate. It wasn\u2019t untrue. Running felt terrible. But that wasn\u2019t the full story. We think change is hard. And it is. But what makes it nearly impossible is the way we frame it. The stories we tell ourselves can either keep us stuck or set us free. I’m an Instagram addict. What should I do?The solution – Obvious. Delete the app, set screen time limits, maybe develop some self-control. But instead, I told myself a different story: “I\u2019m curating my feed for inspiration.” Inspiration for what? For the life I was too busy watching other people live? We do this all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-learnings","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"vasudha","author_link":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/author\/vasudha\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5915,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideaweb.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The solution – Obvious. Delete the app, set screen time limits, maybe develop some self-control.
But instead, I told myself a different story: “I\u2019m curating my feed for inspiration.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
“I work better under pressure<\/strong>” is just a poetic way of saying “I procrastinate until I have no choice.”<\/strong>
“I\u2019ll start Monday”<\/strong> is just “I don\u2019t want to start.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe more clever the excuse, the more dangerous it is.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
The full story was that I hated being bad at it. And as long as I told myself it was a physical limitation, I didn\u2019t have to admit that I was simply avoiding discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don\u2019t just struggle with consistency, discipline, or follow-through. We struggle because we refuse to see our habits for what they really are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>The trick is to stop settling for the comforting version and start looking for the honest one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"