63. Try to sell your home
Once when Steve Hardison and I were discussing a few of my old habits that were holding me back from realizing my business goals, I blurted out to him, “But why do I do those things? If I know they hold me back, why do I continue to do them?”
“Because they are home to you,” he said. “They feel like home. When you do those things, you do them because that’s what you’re comfortable doing, and so you make yourself right at home doing them. And as they say, there’s no place like home.”
“Home” can be an ugly place if it’s not kept up and consciously made beautiful. “Home” can be a dark, damp prison, smelling of bad habits and laziness. But we still don’t want to leave it, no matter how bad it gets, because we think we are ...
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