The Mountain Is You

HOW TO RESOLVE THIS 
Like anything, you need to start slow and adjust your-
self over time. To declutter and reorganize, start with one 
room, and if that is too much, try one corner, drawer, or 
closet. Work on that, and only that, and then implement a 
routine that maintains the organization.
From there, start arranging your space so that it works 
for you, not against you. Put something soothing on your 
bedside table like a diffuser, or create an organized family 
calendar in the kitchen so appointments and schedules are 
visible to others. If you have trouble with the mail being 
disorganized, create a spot for it to go when it comes in 
each day. If you have trouble with laundry being disorga-
nized, create a system for it and decide on a day or two 
that you do the wash, and do it in bulk.
You must slowly let yourself get used to working at a clean 
desk, and eventually it will become second nature. You’ll 
begin to realize that you also feel so much less stressed 
and much more in control of your life.
It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be 
when you are surrounded by an environment that makes 
you feel like a person you aren’t. 

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THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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BRIANNA WIEST
AT TA C H M E N T T O W H AT Y O U
D O N ’ T R E A L LY WA N T
Sometimes, your dreams for your life are adopted from 
other people’s preferences. In other cases, you determine 
what you want and then you outgrow your old ambitions.
Sometimes, we fight endlessly to try to force ourselves to 
want something that we do not really want, and it always 
leaves us empty, because it isn’t a genuine desire. This is 
different than lacking motivation or experiencing resis-
tance. Our inability to perform is not based in fear or lack 
of skill, it is based in an inherent knowing that this is not 
what we want for our lives, and perhaps we’re feeling lost 
or unable to change our path.
When you find yourself struggling with something, you 
have to ask yourself: Do I actually want to do this? Do you 
want the job, or do you just like how the title sounds? Are 
you in love with the person, or do you like the idea of 
the relationship? Are you still holding an outdated idea of 
what your greatest success will be, and if so, what would it 
look like to let that go?
At the end of the day, self-sabotage sometimes functions 
to show us that we aren’t quite on the right path yet, and 
that we need to reevaluate to determine what would feel 
best for our lives, even if that means we disappoint some 
people or even our younger selves. 

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THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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BRIANNA WIEST
We do not have to live the rest of our lives trying to achieve 
some measure of success we thought was ideal when we 
were too young to understand who we even were. Our 
only responsibility is to make decisions for the person we 
have become.