PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

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 PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

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We get good at anything we do often enough, long enough

Day after day we hone our skills

Before you do something you suspect

Might be unwise, iffy, potentially diastrous

If continued unabated

Ask yourself if you want to get good at rationalizing this behavior

If these are the outcomes you wanted

Was all this effort put into digging a big hole

That you then fell into?

If so, I have good news - you can stop digging

And start crafting a way out of the hole 

If you want to get good at eating healthy, living sober

Staying on a budget

Then recoil from the first thought of rationaization

As from a red hot stove

We do this with great difficulty and struggle

At first

Then, with repetition and experience

We develop a method and get very good at the behaviors

We wanted for ourselves, for our futures

A version of ourselves we only dreamed of

Once upon a time.

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