Here's your reckoning.

A reckoning is a position check, an honest look at where you actually are before you move. Nobody can do it for you. That's the point.

You take yourself with you. That's the uncomfortable part and the useful one: it means the pattern is something you have a hand in, which means you have a say in it. These questions are about naming it precisely enough that you can finally do something with it.

Naming the pattern is the part that makes you want to know where it came from. That itch is the whole point. Don't ignore it. Why You Keep Ending Up Here goes after the root, and once you've seen the shape, it's hard to leave it alone.

These reckonings are a taste of how the Real Growth journal works: fifty-two of them over a year. Not buying anything today? The writing behind all of this goes out weekly on Substack.

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Karissa