Continuing from Day 108: Why Did I Not Start the Blogs on Paranoia of Failure
One constant in the last about 7 years of my
life has been relative failure in my studies – since high school. The problem is that I created this to not take responsibility for myself. Relative failure
meaning that I would for example repeat a course but at
the end I’d make it through so the result would be that I spend extra
time on
doing a course. For me it started as a way of getting attention – because as a teenager when I failed some subjects my
parents were ‘all over me’ to try and figure out what had happened.
Over
time it escalated because I was in a situation where I did not
know what to do with my
life in terms of what to study and a
career, so I decided that I might as well continue
living in the comfortable way of the student
life for a while, but without any other goal than that, this way I would for example not put enough effort to complete my studies in the recommended
time – and instead do a year or more extra. Looking in retrospective, I used failure to plain and simply not take
responsibility for myself. Nowadays I do know what I want to do with my
life and this pattern ‘Paranoia of Failure’ is obviously obsolete as it always was. The pattern or ‘Paranoia’ I’ve called ‘Paranoia of Failure’ does not serve me at all to live my
utmost potential and thus has to go.
Another way I used ‘Paranoia of failure’ was so that I do not have to
change. I did this through using the excuse that I had to study in order to not take responsibility for myself within my process, to remain the same and not have to
change to ultimately not take responsibility for
who I am and who I have become.
I forgive myself that I have
accepted and allowed myself to let me participate in the point of ‘Paranoia of failure’
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to diminish myself by deliberately failing at my studies.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to diminish myself by failing at my studies deliberately by not putting in enough work.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not
trust myself enough to complete my studies even though I might not know ‘what is next’ or ‘what I want to do next’.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to limit myself by not
giving myself
purpose within my studies and
life.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to misuse education to not take responsibility for myself instead of using it to expand myself/
support myself.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not live to my utmost potential by participating in the ‘Paranoia of Failure’.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to
trust myself and believe in myself that I can do and become something more for me in my life through education and a career.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the point of ‘Paranoia of Failure’ so that I don’t have to
change.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use ‘Paranoia of failure’ so that I don’t have to face myself, who I am and who I have become.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the point of ‘Paranoia of failure’ so that I don’t have to face myself with getting a job and
support myself that way.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ‘trap myself’ through participating in
Paranoia of Failure through not
moving in any other
direction in my life but failure – in
self-interest, to not have to take responsibility for myself.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use my studies as an excuse to not take responsibility for myself within my process.
Whenever I
see that I am using the excuse of my studies to not take responsibility for myself in my process, I
stop and I
breathe. I realize that I have to be
self-honest about what I can do in my day, and not accept anything less but that. I
commit myself to remind myself to be
self-honest about what I have
time to do and what not within my day.
Whenever I see that I am
falling back into not putting enough work or ‘right down not doing’ what is necessary to do so that I am successful at my studies, I stop and I
breathe. I realize that it serves no
purpose that I fail at my studies and life - and that I must support myself to be successful at anything I do in order to live my utmost potential.
Whenever I see that I participate in
laziness or I don’t push myself enough within my studies, I stop and I breathe. I realize that I must push myself – that there are no valid excuses to not do all I can do to be successful at my studies. Within this, I commit myself to push myself at my studies as much as I am able to - so that I may live my utmost potential.
I commit myself to remind myself of my purpose
in this life, of the reasons why I study – so that I don’t ‘get lost’ in any way but instead push myself even to greater extents so that I may become more in this life.