It never ceases to amaze me to find myself hearing, reading, and finding messages that have a common thread. In the last couple of days it's been "letting go." Letting go of what you can't control, of what's holding you back, of old ideas that are no longer relevant. Letting go of all the negative things that stop us from moving forward.
Starting with letting go of what we can't control. Rather than common and compound the negative feelings by constantly reliving something you can't do anything about. Things like other people's actions, traffic, weather, and all the little things we allow to dig in and irritate us the more we think about it. If we can't accept what we can't control, we need to let it go to let the positive and good things in.
Do you ever feel guided in a particular direction, but you don't move because something holds you back. Whether it's fear, uncertainty, self doubt, over thinking, being comfortable where your at, sometimes we have to be able to let it go in order to reach goals and dreams higher than we thought possible.
Holding on to old ideas prohibits us from seeing new possibilities. We form ideas in our minds on how our lives should be, a lot of the time, they form childhood. As we take these ideas into adulthood we continue to try to meet these ideas. Yet we don't take into consideration that we change into different people than who we were when we first adopted the ideas. For example, my idea of love, marriage, parenthood, and family came from watching my parents. When I first got married, the first time, I thought my marriage, family, and new life would be the same as what I grew up with. How wrong I was. Now, in my second marriage it's still not the family life I grew up with but I let go of my old idea of how it should be and formed a new one.
Letting go is difficult to do. It's easier to hang on to our complaints, whatever is holding us back, and the old ideas that keep us comfortable. Yet moving forward, change, and reaching for what we want often means finding courage and letting go.
Starting with letting go of what we can't control. Rather than common and compound the negative feelings by constantly reliving something you can't do anything about. Things like other people's actions, traffic, weather, and all the little things we allow to dig in and irritate us the more we think about it. If we can't accept what we can't control, we need to let it go to let the positive and good things in.
Do you ever feel guided in a particular direction, but you don't move because something holds you back. Whether it's fear, uncertainty, self doubt, over thinking, being comfortable where your at, sometimes we have to be able to let it go in order to reach goals and dreams higher than we thought possible.
Holding on to old ideas prohibits us from seeing new possibilities. We form ideas in our minds on how our lives should be, a lot of the time, they form childhood. As we take these ideas into adulthood we continue to try to meet these ideas. Yet we don't take into consideration that we change into different people than who we were when we first adopted the ideas. For example, my idea of love, marriage, parenthood, and family came from watching my parents. When I first got married, the first time, I thought my marriage, family, and new life would be the same as what I grew up with. How wrong I was. Now, in my second marriage it's still not the family life I grew up with but I let go of my old idea of how it should be and formed a new one.
Letting go is difficult to do. It's easier to hang on to our complaints, whatever is holding us back, and the old ideas that keep us comfortable. Yet moving forward, change, and reaching for what we want often means finding courage and letting go.
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