{"id":11,"date":"2008-01-25T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stasosphere.com\/experience-life\/2008\/01\/sabotaging-our-success-no-challenges-challenge\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:56:43","slug":"sabotaging-our-success-no-challenges-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stasosphere.com\/experience-life\/2008\/01\/sabotaging-our-success-no-challenges-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabotaging Our Success. No Challenges Challenge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-471\" src=\"https:\/\/stasosphere.com\/experience-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/feather-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"feather Australia - NSW - Moira Lake - March 2003\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Not once I&#8217;ve heard that we tend to self-sabotage our own success, because we don&#8217;t want to leave the comfort of a struggle. I think I finally understand what it means to self-sabotage my own success.<\/p>\n<p>All my life I&#8217;ve been struggling. First childhood, then school and professional sports, then university and finally work. Rolling from one goal to the next, through ongoing hard work and struggle, I&#8217;ve been really good at it. When I had hard challenges in my life I worked the hardest, I was the most efficient at what I did and life seemed to be full&#8230; of struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m at the point of my life where I&#8217;ve arrived &#8211; I have succeeded. I don&#8217;t have any more exams, I don&#8217;t have a boss to worry about, etc. &#8212; I have total freedom to do whatever I want. And it&#8217;s so damn hard. It was so much easier when I had the comfort of having the life set challenge after challenge for me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now I realize that this time life presented the hardest challenge of all &#8211; having no challenge. 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