{"id":3056,"date":"2013-12-30T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2013-12-29T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:08:45","slug":"take-the-step-that-youre-sure-you-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2013\/12\/take-the-step-that-youre-sure-you-cant.html","title":{"rendered":"Take the Step That You\u2019re Sure You Can\u2019t (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Each time you\u2019ll take the step that you\u2019re sure you can\u2019t, you\u2019ll discover that the \u201cyou\u201d who <i>would not<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">was only a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">thought<\/span> that believed it <i>could not<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"left\">\u00a0***<\/p>\n<p>How many times have you found yourself thinking you\u2019d like to develop a new skill, or sharpen an old one? Maybe learn a language or musical instrument; further your higher education; or maybe just get up out of your easy chair and do some catch-up on that correspondence you\u2019ve been putting off for weeks!<\/p>\n<p>But in each, or at least most of these instances, before you can even get started, you find yourself turned back &#8212; repelled from your upcoming chosen task by an onslaught of invisible forces! Suddenly, you\u2019re surrounded by deep weariness, self-doubt, mental fog, or sometimes just plain fear.<\/p>\n<p>Do you recognize any of these self-stalling inner-attackers? Would you like to be liberated from their limiting influences? Freed to pursue higher levels of your own inner development? That\u2019s what an exercise I\u2019m going to share with you is all about: teaching you how to take that next step each time you\u2019re just sure you can\u2019t\u2026 [to be continued]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each time you\u2019ll take the step that you\u2019re sure you can\u2019t, you\u2019ll discover that the \u201cyou\u201d who would not was only a thought that believed it could not. \u00a0*** How many times have you found yourself thinking you\u2019d like to develop a new skill, or sharpen an old one? Maybe learn a language or musical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,511],"tags":[560,1830,1831,846,1829,347,874,1832],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear-fearlessness","category-uplifting-quote-key-lesson","tag-inner-development","tag-learn-a-language","tag-learn-an-instrument","tag-limitations","tag-new-skill","tag-new-years-resolutions","tag-self-doubt","tag-stalling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Take the Step That You\u2019re Sure You Can\u2019t (Part 1) - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2013\/12\/take-the-step-that-youre-sure-you-cant.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Take the Step That You\u2019re Sure You Can\u2019t (Part 1) - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each time you\u2019ll take the step that you\u2019re sure you can\u2019t, you\u2019ll discover that the \u201cyou\u201d who would not was only a thought that believed it could not. \u00a0*** How many times have you found yourself thinking you\u2019d like to develop a new skill, or sharpen an old one? 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