Sometimes we make a choice that, deep down, we know isn’t in our best interest. It is contrary to who we want to be. And we do it over and over because it keeps us comfortable. We’re afraid of facing all the things in our lives that are bothering us. That would mean “identifying what in your life can be fixed, changed, and transformed.”1 That is why the choices we make drive who we can and cannot become.

The past week was hard. Because I made the wrong choices that sabotage...