The Dangers of Avoidance | Leo Babauta

We're trying to protect ourselves by avoiding. So I'm avoiding the difficult conversations with my partner or my team. I'm avoiding taking a look at things, avoiding my finances, all of this stuff that we've talked about. The habit is actually just avoidance. And this is the thing that causes it all to build up. This is why we have this huge mess over here, because I've been avoiding and avoiding and avoiding. And so again, not making it wrong because we can demonize that part of ourselves that procrastinates or avoids. we're gonna just like layer on the second thing that I was gonna say, which is self hatred. Basically self judgment, self criticism, just like hating on ourselves for not doing all of those things that I was just told that I should do, right? So the first one is avoidance and then layering on top of that the second one which is self self hatred.