The Importance of Letting-Go
Last week I had to make a very tough decision and the more I was struggling with it, the more I realized that what made it hard for me to make that decision was that I had to let go of someone that I admired.
Letting go is a hard skill to learn, ironically people would call it a “soft skill”.
In business and in life there are times that in order to move forward you will need to let go of something that you held precious and dear to you previously.
However, if you will not let go of it you’ll become rigid and stuck in your old ways.
In today’s economy business is changing by the minute and if you do not learn the art of letting-go you’ll end up falling down the “cliff of certainty” into the abyss of bankruptcy and failure.
We all need to learn the art of letting-go, whether it is for our business or whether it is in our private life.
Here are 10 things that you’ll need to learn to let go of:
1. Let-go of your need to ALWAYS be right
The number 1 reason people are financially broke and are miserable is their need to prove that what they thought once to be true is wrong.
No one likes to find out that they are wrong. However if you have this constant desire to prove that you are right, no matter what, you will end up destroying everything that you love and cherish.
It’s just not worth it.
Whenever you feel the ‘urgent’ need to prove you are right and the other is wrong, ask yourself this simple question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be happy (or rich)?”
If you choose for happy (or rich) then you’ll need to let go of being right in that moment.
2. Let-go of your need for control
Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you – situations, events, people, etc.
Whether it is your loved ones, coworkers, customers, suppliers or just strangers you meet on the street – just allow them to be.
Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel.
If this is hard for you, just remember that the world will not stop when you are dead and gone, which means that life will go on without you, so why not let it flow and go even when you are here.
3. Let-go of your limiting beliefs
You were born with unlimited potential. Science proves again and again that we, human only use, maybe 10% of our potential.
How about you let go of those limiting believes you have about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible.
From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place.Spread your wings and fly!
4. Let-go of blaming
Let-go of your need to blame others for what you have or not done, for what you feel or don’t feel.
Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.
5. Let-go of complaining
Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, many things – people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed.
Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to.
It’s not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it.
Complaining means you are a victim of the circumstances or of those people.
Reclaim your power and take actions to change those events, circumstances that you do not like instead of complaining.
6. Let-go of your excuses
The need to prove you are right always shows up as the need to give excuses.
Send them packing and tell them they’re fired. You no longer need them.
Many of your excuses are only limiting and making yourself small, instead of growing and working on improving yourself and your life.
Excuses will allow you to get stuck, and in many cases those excuses are not even real.
Let go of your excuses for playing it small and let yourself SHINE and live in your GREATNESS.
7. Let-go of your past
Your past is not equal your future. If we would be stuck in the belief that the past is equal our future the earth would be flat!
I know you’ve tried things in the past, I know you might have failed in the past, but that does not mean it would be your future!
In order to create the life you wish, in order to have the success you dream about you’ll need to let go of your past… even when your past was a GOOD one!
I know, I know. It’s hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have.
Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life.
After all life is a journey not a destination.
Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.
8. Let-go of your resistance to change
The only thing in life, which is permanent, is… CHANGE.
Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you.
The more you resist change, the more you resist progress and the flow of life, which will create suffering and pain in your life.
Learn to embrace change – don’t resist it.
9. Let-go of people that don’t support you
As time goes by people change. People that have been there to support you at a certain period of your life, might not be as supporting to the person that you are today.
Have the courage to let go of those people that do not support you in your journey anymore.
Allow only positive and uplifting people into your life. Let-go of toxic people who lower down your energy.
Sometimes, it might be clients that are not your ideal clients, sometimes it might be friends that “do not get you anymore” and sometimes it might be even loved ones that you will have to limit your time with as they do not uplift you.
Make sure you surround yourself with positive people, those that are not… let them go!
10. Let-go of living your life up other people’s expectations
Stop living your life according to what other people expect of you.
Stop living up to what you think others want you to do, whether it is your friends, your enemies, your teachers, your government or the media.
Stop ignoring your inner voice, your inner calling. Stop being busy with pleasing everybody, and living up to their expectations.
You have one life – this one right now – you must live it, own it, and especially don’t let other people’s opinions distract you from your path.
Now I’m curious….
What do you have to let-go in order to be successful and happy in life?
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