What are the enemies to your aim of becoming a deeper person?
- Lack of self-care and unbalanced rhythms
- Consuming low-content media, especially social media.
- The 24-hour news and commentary feeding a compulsion to stay informed. Try fasting from “news” for a few days, and you’ll learn that when something is important you will hear about it.
- Trusting the wrong people
- Associating with people who don’t honor the work required to become a deeper person
- Wishful thinking and the desire for instant solutions
- Impatience and arrogance (note how often these go together)
- The desire to be the noun without doing the verb
How do you overcome the power of these enemies?
- Consistent practices to pull you towards depth
- Preach to yourself
- Make yourself accountable to others
- Being in community
- Humility and willingness to begin afresh after a let-down
- Embracing discomfort
- Measuring progress (e.g., tracking consecutive days of a good habit)
Not easy, but straightforward.
