Summary: <br> This new year of life has been presented to you as an opportunity. An opportunity to do things you’ve never done before. An opportunity to go where you’ve never gone before. An opportunity to become who you’ve never been before. And with this opportunity comes two emotions: Excitement … and Fear.<br> It’s exciting to imagine things actually being possible for you this time. It’s exciting to imagine breakthroughs and successes. It’s exciting to imagine your best self finally showing up to live your days.<br> And it’s also scary as heck thinking about leaving behind old ways. It’s scary stepping into the unknown.<br> Daring to show up at the gym when you have no freaking clue how to work a single machine. When you’re surrounded by firm bodies in spandex and you poured yo’self into some sweat pants, it’s scary up in that gym.<br> Boldy deciding the ways you’ve been coping with the stress are not healthy and you’re making a change, that’s scary.<br> Pouring out the wine and vowing to not cope with it any longer is scary.<br> Pitching the cigarettes, going cold turkey and deciding you’re not willingly giving yourself lung cancer causes fear. Fear if you have the willpower to stick with it this time. Fear if you can fight through the withdrawals.<br> A decision to stop eating your feelings and hiding in shame with a bag of chips, a pan of brownies, a plate of doughnuts, a bowl of icecream, the 3rd helping of fried chicken or whatever your ammo is, that’s scary. Changing what you’ve always done is naturally met with fear.<br> A decision to take your life back and get off your darn phone creates anxiety. How will you resist the urge to do what you’ve always done? How will you break this habit? How will you change?<br> Change creates fear.<br> Understand what you’re doing here sister … that change you are seeking this year, whether I’ve mentioned it or not, is an act of tearing down a wall.<br> We’ve all built walls. Walls that keep us confined in a little life when we were created for a BIG Life! 2020 is the year of tearing down some freaking walls.<br> If you watch any of the popular remodel shows on HGTV, you’ve heard wall tearing down day referred to as “demolition day”. It’s time for some demolition in your life. There’s a word for someone this year. Demolition: This year I’m tearing down the walls that have held me back. I’m moving beyond the things which are no longer serving me and I’m stepping into new exciting territory. Girl, tear down those walls.<br> The walls you’ve built keep you safe in your familiar old ways of living, but they have also kept you stuck in a pattern of settling and sinking. Sinking deeper into sadness as you gain another pound in the week. Sinking deeper into debt as you once again ignore the bill. Sinking deeper into the mess as the junk drawer becomes a junk room, and pretty soon you’re a candidate for the next season of Hoarders. Sinking deeper into a doomed marriage as your only emotion is anger and your only volume is yelling.<br> This is the reality of your comfort zone your walls have created. It’s not happy in here. It’s not hopeful in here. What’s happening inside these walls is your very life is being sucked from you. It’s time to TAKE IT BACK.<br> Take back your life. I’m talking about the one you were created for. Take it back. From the beginning there has always been a bigger life available to you, one you were designed and equipped for, and I’m telling you that life is still available to you. It’s not too late. You’re not too far gone. You’re not hopeless. God has made a way for you, and the way is only through tearing down those darn walls.<br> This morning I woke up to a quote one of our BIG Life gi...
