6 Concrete Signs You’re Afraid To Embrace Your Truth (And Reach Your Potential)

Sometimes, you’re your own worst enemy. Sometimes, the only thing holding you back is yourself. In order to give yourself the greatest chance of reaching success and happiness, you need to be brave and believe in yourself. You need to have faith that you are strong enough and capable enough to take on any challenge. Here are the concrete signs you’re scared to embrace your truth and reach your potential, which has been holding you back:

You keep making excuses to procrastinate, even when it comes to the things you desperately want to do.

Fear is going to keep you frozen in place. It will prevent you from trying and failing (or trying and succeeding) because you would rather continue a routine that feels safe and comfortable than break out of your comfort zone. But you’re never going to reach your full potential if you refuse to veer off the path you’ve been following.

You constantly lie to yourself by insisting important things (and people) aren’t actually important to you.

If you want to reach your full potential, you need to be honest with yourself. You need to admit what makes you happy, and what’s making you miserable. Pretending isn’t protecting yourself. It’s doing a disservice to yourself.

You are one person in private – and put on an act whenever you’re around others.

The first step to reaching happiness is getting to know yourself on a deeper level, so you should be proud of yourself for accomplishing this feat. Of course, the next step is a little trickier. It’s embracing who you really are, no matter who is in the room watching you and judging you. You need to care less about impressing others and pleasing others because this is your life. They don’t have a say in your path. That’s entirely up to you.

You sweep problems under the rug, hoping they will disappear.

You can’t run from what’s bothering you. If you are constantly feeling stressed and aren’t sure why, it might be because you are ignoring problems. You are refusing to even admit that something is wrong. You are expending all of your energy on pretending everything is fine instead of working toward solving the issue. It doesn’t matter how much you wish it would go away on its own. That’s not going to happen. You need to play an active role in fixing this.

You spend more time daydreaming about what needs to change instead of making actual changes.

You don’t want to live a fantasy life inside of your head when you could take real, concrete steps to turn that fantasy into a reality. You have much more agency than you realize. You can change everything, if you push aside your fear and embrace your courageous side.

You are waiting for outside factors to come into play.

You can’t rely on someone else to bring you happiness. You can’t keep waiting and waiting for them to change your life. You have to take control of your own life, change your own destiny. It’s up to you. No one else.