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Phrase: A chink in your armour
Everyone has a weakness.
Although we all do our best to hide it – to put up a façade – we all have a chink in our armour somewhere.
It may be that you tend to procrastinate.
Perhaps you quickly become discouraged if you don’t achieve immediate results.
A personal challenge or chink in your armour could be anything from a character flaw to a tendency to habitually believe people no matter what they tell you.
It’s nothing about which you should be ashamed.
Everyone, absolutely everyone, has a weakness.
If we think back to the days when knights wore steel plate armour or chainmail, even those guys had a chink in their armour.
Quite often, their shortcomings were in the joints, such as under their arms or between their legs.
If you could knock a knight off his horse or knock him down while he was on the ground, you could hit him in those weak spots and take him out of the battle.
That never stopped them from fighting, though.
It shouldn’t stop you, either.
If we know what the chink in our armour is, then we can work around it or work to strengthen ourselves in that area.
If the chink in your armour is that you are easily distracted from whatever it is you are working on, then make sure you have no distractions.
Turn on ‘do not disturb’ on your phone or reward yourself for 30 minutes of work with five minutes of Internet surfing.
Humans are great at working around our weaknesses and personal challenges.
Just like the knights of old, we have a chink in our armour, but we all have to continue fighting.
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