Your efforts at fulfilling your motivation may not bring you the results you want right away. You may feel like the effort is not working, because you have never acted on your dreams before. You may feel hopeless and lost not because of past emotional injuries, but because you’re simply unfamiliar with this new way of living.

After years of parents filling us with fear and expectations of punishment, we learn that when we feel intense motivation and burning curiosity, we are about to put ourselves in danger.

Too often the rules we fear to break are the ones that forbid us from taking care of ourselves at the expense of someone else’s inconvenience or hurt feelings.