Day TwentySeven: An inside job.
Don’t be surprised if the breakthrough feels a lot like wandering. Like losing your bearings. Like standing in unfamiliar territory with nothing left to prove. And, nothing to hold onto.
This is where transformation really happens.
Not in the highlight reel. But in the quiet, in-between spaces where you start telling the truth to yourself.
You begin to see what you were never able, or willing, to see before: That all your striving, all your perfection, all your self-protection was never about wholeness. It was about survival.
And now, my friend. Now you’re ready to live.
To love without keeping score.
To rest without guilt.
To stop managing everyone else’s perception and start honoring your own soul.
The pressure to perform starts to fade. The need to have the answers begins to loosen its grip. And, something softer, deeper, more human starts to take root.
Not polished. Not put-together. Just fully here.
This is the shift:
From coping to creating.
From fear to freedom.
From proving to being.
And it doesn’t happen all at once.
It happens breath by breath.
Choice by choice.
Moment by moment.
Mantra \ Prayer:
Today, I’m trading in performance for presence.
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Steve Knox | Alabama