Just Let Go!
Here it is .....5:30.....just before dinner and I am finally writing to you.It seems that my quiet time has shifted once again. In the past, my days started with writing. It was the most important thing for me to do to get going. There has been a shift recently and it has taken me a while to come to grips with it. My mornings have started off with texts and emails to be answered, errands to be run and agenda items that need attending to. By mid morning, I find myself trying to find some quiet time to write. Invariably, by that point, my mind is racing in 100 different directions and gathering my thoughts becomes a stress point instead of a time for thoughtful reflection. It has only been over the last few days that I have come to realize that if I just let go,I will eventually find that peaceful space that I was struggling to get to.This is not the only shift I have experienced lately. Whether in sales or marketing or management or coaching, I find that letting go is much easier than forcing an issue or situation. Time and time again, if I remember to stop myself ,to step back and to let go, inevitably things work out.Things always workout. Possibly not the way I may have envisioned them, but that's on me.That's what I get for having expectations. Expecting something to happen is a sure fire path to disappointment.
As I was writing this, I happened to open an email that just came through. Probably not a great idea.My immediate response was "are you kidding me?" "Now you want this?".Obviously it is the end of my day, when many of the resources I will need to handle this matter are not readily available . I began to get agitated and worked up. How,why , what if, when,....and then it came back to me.Let it go!
Tomorrow is another day. Tomorrow I will have the resources at hand to make intelligent decisions.Or not. It doesn't matter. The one thing I know for sure is that right now, in this moment, those particular resources are just not available so let it go for now.It will wait. And if it doesn't? That's okay too!
In my reality, this is a very hard thing to come to terms with. It is not how I have functioned for the past 61 years of my life.
I plan.
I fix.
I do.
Letting go?
Whoa!
That's a pretty radical concept.
Maybe radical is a good thing!
I know letting go is!
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