How is it going with your New Year’s intentions? Have you lacked follow through or are you staying strong? This lack of follow through is when the inner critic (may) jump in and tell us stories about how we are a failure---how we can never change, that we’re lazy, incapable…(insert all unhelpful narratives here). Your inner critic is lying to you. You are not a failure. You are not incapable. You are simply out of alignment with what is important to you. Read that again: You are simply out of alignment with what is important to you.