The most dastardly villain in our story is often ourselves.

Look back on all of the failures you've struggled with over the years.

We always place the villain outside of ourselves.

A convenient vessel for blame: someone else.

Sit with the idea: what if your villain all along was you?

What if the reason you failed was because of self-sabotaging behavior that you didn't even realize you were doing?

When you're the villain it's even more dastardly, because it's completely hidden; we place the blame in the wrong places, because we are less likely to blame ourselves.

If you place the blame outside of yourself, you'll never look inward and see how you might grow.

Of course, we're never 100% the villain, but we're often more our own villain than we think we are.