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The Most Dangerous Lie We Tell Ourselves

As the year comes to a close, people start telling themselves the same story. They convince themselves that enough distance from the past will soften what still hurts, that time will smooth over unresolved issues, and that simply reaching the next calendar year will somehow make things different. It feels patient. It feels responsible. It even feels mature. But it quietly removes responsibility from the one place it belongs.

Time does not change people. Work does.

Time does not confront patterns, expose blind spots, or interrupt habits that feel familiar. It simply passes. And when nothing else changes, time has a way of making problems feel smaller without ever making them better. If your life is going to change, it will not be because enough time passed. It will be because you were willing to do the work; time never will.

That work always begins at the source of the problem.

You.

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