Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward

by Henry Cloud

Life has seasons, stages, and phases. For there to be anything new, old things always have to end, and we have to let go of them.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on.

Some endings are not a next natural step but are just as necessary. We wish they weren’t, but they are.

In many contexts, until we let go of what is not good, we will never find something that is good. The lesson: good cannot begin until bad ends.