How To Stop Lying to Yourself And Start Living Your Best Life

Lying to yourself is how you remain stuck in a circle of mediocrity

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You can be brutally honest with others but struggle to be truthful with yourself. It’s a fascinating paradox, isn’t it?

Lying to ourselves, or self-deception, is an art we master without even realizing it. It’s our mind’s clever way of protecting us from uncomfortable truths or shielding our fragile egos.

We all do it. We trick ourselves into believing something that’s not true about how we really feel, what drives us, or what’s happening around us.

We convince ourselves that everything is fine, even when we know deep down that it’s not.

It’s like wearing blinders that block out the facts, logic, and reality, all so we can create a story that fits what we want to believe. As Mark Twain observed, “We do not deal much in fact when we are contemplating ourselves.”

The problem is, when you lie to yourself, you don’t see things as they really are and your life can take a completely different turn for the worse.

“You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all.”