Difficult Truth

Sometimes we simply do not understand how deep the root is. We accept that we have an issue, and even begin to identify what it is, but until we can truly see the degree of its affects on our lives there is no real hope of being delivered.
Right now I am reading Put Your Dreams To The Test by John Maxwell. I just started, but today one of the sections I read was on being “willing to bet on yourself.” The author used an example from Akeelah and the Bee when Akeelah reads her spelling coach's plaque with Nelson Mandela’s infamous speech inscribed on it. After she reads it her coach asks her what it means. She says "That I'm not supposed to be afraid...of me." I couldn't even finish the sentence. The word “me” looked my name, it felt so personal. Sometimes it takes reading a book or having a conversation to realize how deeply old wounds run.
It had never occurred to me that perhaps pursuing my dreams presents a challenge for me, not because I don’t have buy-in from others, but because I don’t have buy-in from me. If confidence is key then perhaps a few of my doors to success are still locked. So that is where I need to start.

What is holding you back from your dreams? This year instead of working around the difficult truth I challenge you to face it head on. We'll do it together. How is that for a resolution?!