The art of letting go is truly an art.
I woke up too early this morning. Still needing more sleep. But my head would not let me. I can be like a cow. A cow that keeps chewing and chewing. The same words in my head coming back over and over again. As if there is a song on repeat, in an infinite loop.
My mind has this tendency to make elephants of mosquitos like the famous saying goes. In both positive and negative sense. Give me half a word or sign of appreciation and I can live off of that for weeks, months or even years. But give me half a word of doubt and I’ll turn it around a hundred dozen times as well.
The latter is of course not wise at all. I am well equipped to notice :-) But it is very hard to break with this habit.
As per my Gallup Strength profile, I am a Maximizer. I live life fully. I love life 150% if not even more. In the math world, you could probably call it living life squared. It’s an intense way of living. But I would not want it any other way.
The more important it is, though, to learn to let go. It reminded me of a sentence from the book The Happiness Quest; “Apparently, I was filtering bits of life that were flying at me by the millisecond, and my happiness levels were dependent upon what I kept and what I discarded.”
It’s so true. Anyone who, like me, chews forever on things that happened, needs to learn to at some point tick off the negatives, to just discard them. There are always so many different angles to look at things. But some of those “bits of life” just do not get prettier or more useful when we keep putting them in a different spotlight.
We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can most certainly control what we emphasize.
So let’s put our spotlight on the good things, the positives, the things that make us grow and make those so bright and beautiful that they simply out tune all else. And honestly, there are so many beautiful bits of life that this is highly doable.
Fill your heart with what’s important & let go of the rest.
My little secret to maximizing life.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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