Excuses—and More Excuses A common excuse for people embarking on this journey is that they do not have sufficient energy to run their lives and engage in transformational work at the same time. Actually, we are given more than enough energy to transform ourselves every day, but we waste 98 percent of it on tensions, on emotional reactions unrelated to what is actually occurring, and on daydreaming and mental chatter. The fact is, our energy can go to one of two places: it may be poured into maintaining the structures of our personality, or if we disidentify with those structures, it may be
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