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📆 Daily Issue 42 | ⏱️ Read time: 2 min

Your Battle Within

There is part of you that is ready for the next level of your life. And there is part of you that is not.

There is part of you that is excited for the challenge: ready to rewire new habits, ready to become a new person, and ready to accept your destiny.

Simultaneously, there is another part of you that does not want to change the status quo.

There will always be these two parts of you.

It is the age-old parable.

Good vs. evil.

Light vs. dark.

Good wolf vs. the bad wolf.

Last night I watched “The Gentlemen” and I had a sort of epiphany.

I realized that I identified with two characters.

I identified with the older, degenerate brother who spent his entire life self-sabotaging, sniffing cocaine, and making messes for other people to clean up.

But, to my surprise, I also identified with the younger brother who is honorable, mature, and respectable.

These two men were a human personification of the good wolf and bad wolf within me.

And honestly, I don’t know which is stronger.

It made me realize how much my own choices come into play when deciding my life.

I can be the dishonorable comedic relief, or I can be the honorable hero. Every moment is a new decision.

I get to decide….

Who is my movie about?

What is the plot?

How does it end?

I was thrilled when I found myself identifying with the hero, and I decided then and there that this is a part of me that I want to nourish.

The part that chooses the high road,

The part that helps people in need,

The part that doesn’t complain and never gives up.

Here’s to making better choices and fighting the good fight. We deserve to be the hero in our own movie.

Keep inspiring,

Nicole