I am catching up with posting online my articles.
I am sure that many of us have already heard this saying before. Just like me. But then there comes a point of knowing and hearing it and practically realise it. Because you'll know... we can read and memorize a book/s with all this beautiful and motivating sayings and quotes but if we don't use and apply them practically then it is just useless knowledge and information being stored in the memory of our computer ( brain ).
Anyway... let's have a look at this quote from the title of this article: "you are your own worst enemy". What it means is that what is stopping us from achieving our own goals and succeeding is not the things and people out there but yourself. But you can only fully comprehend it once you stop putting blame on others. And this is because blaming others and any external circumstances is an excuse to not do things and not to face yourself and then transform yourself.
So in my case I decided a week ago to do a little experiment and stop wasting time on doing silly things ( e.g. browsing senselessly internet and Facebook ) and instead to stay disciplined and focused on my important goals and priorities. It was interesting to see that almost immediately I felt really good from doing it because it was giving me real sensation of gaining my personal power. But it was also interesting to see that on the 2nd day I fell. I came home and I started to play a computer game. I had intention to do it only for 5 minutes but I ended up playing oven 1 hour.
You'll know... maybe to you this is a small and insignificant thing because maybe you play on the computer every day for few hours. There is really nothing wrong with playing computer games just to relax a little bit and have some fun. But in my case it was about staying focused and disciplined for 1 week and do only things which are my priorities. And that is why I say that playing a little bit computer game was a fall.
Now... I had few more other falls during this week but at the same time I managed to say "no" on many occasions to the temptations of doing silly and senseless things and I am really glad that I did. First of all I did important things and I got forward with my projects and secondly when I was staying focused disciplined I felt that I was regaining my inner power. And this is awesome. Thirdly I understood and comprehended more the saying that we are our own worst enemies. You'll know... there was nobody there during this week to disturb me and to put blame on. It was only me. And it was me who made the decisions to fall.
So this was 1 week of experiment. I did not manage to "pass the exam" so I will do this experiment again this following week.