"Never let chaos and uncertainty make you just stay where you are." (Change)

Are you outgrowing your life right now? In today's episode, Emma gets us thinking about change. And how to deal with the people who try to hold us back. 

If you could talk to you, this is what it would sound like. In under five-minute clips, the Life Letters™ explores the topics of growth, change, self-love, relationships, and happiness. Hosted by author Emma Grace of Instagram’s hugely popular 'Live in the Details,' the Life Letters™ will hand you a daily dose of the words you never knew you always needed to hear.

Podcast Transcript: So, here’s the thing about change— you have to actually MEAN it. Sure, it’s all well and good to swear up one side and down the other that you are going to be different. That THINGS are going to be different. But that just gets you to the starting line. You can be committed— you can want it like crazy— but that will never be enough to produce a result. It just won’t. Change comes from work. Hard work. YOUR work. And I swear to you— it is always going to be hard. It is always going to hurt. It is always going to feel wrong. And you are ALWAYS going to question whether what you are doing is taking you in the right direction. Often that’s because of the push-back you’ll get from the people who are watching your transformation— but don’t understand it yet. It will come from the people you’re outgrowing or pulling away from or discovering you don’t need anymore. And those people are going to be your anchors. They are going to try to hold you in a life you don’t fit in anymore and it is always YOUR JOB to see that. And stop it. When it gets hard (and it will) I need you to KNOW that just means you need to work harder. If it’s a boundary, you have to hold it. If it’s a promise, you have to keep it. If it’s a habit you’re trying to make— you have to EMBRACE the pain of the early mornings and late nights and tiredness and discomfort. And love? If it’s a habit you are trying to kick— then you have got to understand it’s going to come with some “one step forward, two step back” kind of days. And that is NORMAL. All of it. Change is the ONLY thing you’re responsible for in this life. Stop thinking that just because you were something or wanted something that you have to be that or want that forever. When you start feeling that urge to change— just let it carry you. Let it carry you past the people and things that are going to try to stand in your way. Past the non-believers and the negativity and the “you’re not the same anymore.” And as things are coming together for you, just do me one favor. Hell, do yourself one favor. NEVER go back. Never feel the chaos and uncertainty and confusion and decide its easier to just stay where you are. Things will never change for you if you keep letting yourself be the one standing in your own way.