You can plan for survival, or you can plan for growth

The most important difference, from your point of view is this:

When you plan for survival, every setback threatens you with death, or poverty, or lack, or illness.

When you plan for growth, every setback is a new opportunity to use your skills to now grow from this new level.

The natural tendency is to want to shrink when you feel threatened. To withdraw, to cut your losses, to run. every fiber of your being wants to run, or return to the fetal position.

Like in many things, the natural tendency is not what works.

If the natural tendency has always won, there would be no intelligent life on the planet… only maybe bacteria.

All growth, all evolution, all advancement is the result of overcoming the natural tendency.

Shrink until it is comfortable again.

Sabotage, lie, pretend…

Comfortable. The opposite of growth. The first step of living life for survival.

It feels so natural, you don’t even notice until you almost hit bottom.
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