Sabotage, Hard Times, Lack of Faith, and Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy

Sabotage: What is it, why do we do it, and how to overcome it:

I don't know about you, but my life has had a fairly decent share of crisis, difficulties, hard times. We all have. Needless to say, when life goes well, I can't help but brace myself for the next shoe to fall. Something will spoil it. There's always the good with the bad until we die. After all, life has never been fair. So, I do not expect it to be anything different at this stage in the game.

There are times a hard time is something we cannot control. It just happens. We can't do anything about it except go with it and try not to struggle too much and make the situation worse.

However, since my life has seen so many challenges, I think I manufacture them sometimes. I think it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think that it will happen anyway, so why not make it happen sooner rather than later. Consequently, I add stresses to my life that don't need to be there. I set unrealistic deadlines. I beat myself up if I don't get things done. I get frustrated when life does not go my way.

At the moment, my life is everything I aimed for it to be. I spent the last 8 years intentionality working to bring my life to this point. Eight long, hard years of hard work and a great deal of mindfulness and intentionality in all I did. Now that I'm here, I keep wondering when something will change my bliss. It always does change. So, why fool myself into thinking this time is different?

What a lie.

Where is my faith?

Bad does not have to happen.

I can choose to focus on the positive and cling to my faith. I can seek to draw nearer to God. It's the most important thing I can do in my life and has eternal implications.

I can choose to allow good to happen and see my hard labor pay off and give God the glory for my good times at the moment.

Life does change on a dime.

However, it does not mean I need to diminish the good. I don't need to sabotage myself. I just need to focus on what is important to me.

Do you sabotage things in your life?

Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy