Day 59 Vote for Letting Go
Every action is a vote for who you want to be. What are you voting for today? 🗳️
Welcome to 100 Days to Living Aligned, your (not even close to) daily nudge to make small, intentional choices that build on each other. No overthinking. No waiting. Just single, simple actions, taken one at a time, toward becoming your future self.
You want to cling to what’s familiar. I get it.
It’s what you know.
Even if it’s not what you want, it’s what you have, which you think is better than not having it.
Is that true, though? Which is better: to have something you don’t want or to not have it?
Maybe you just don’t need it.
Do the beliefs you have about yourself still serve you? Are they useful? Are they helpful?
Are they true?
I know they feel true.
Be honest with yourself. Are they true? If you say yes, how do you know they’re true? Are you absolutely certain?
What about the rest of the stuff you carry around, like judgments, fears, and criticism? Are they still true?
They didn’t come out of nowhere. They served a purpose at some point.
There’s a positive intention behind every belief and thought.
Most likely it was for protection. That’s all your nervous system is concerned with. It doesn’t care if you’re happy. It only cares if you’re safe. That’s the program that runs in the background every single second.
“Am I safe?”
Your beliefs have served you well up to now.
If you want to go forward, though, you have to let them go. You can’t be the person you want to be and still hold onto the person you were; and that’s who you built those beliefs for.
Who would you be without those beliefs?
Letting go of what isn’t useful anymore is like waving a magic wand and making a new choice. The best part of that?
You can do it over and over again, whenever you want, as often as you want.
All it takes is curiosity and a willingness to see yourself differently.
So imagine taking anything you don’t need anymore, waving your magic wand, and metaphorically blasting it into dust, scattering it into the ether to be transformed. It doesn’t matter what it becomes as long as you’re not holding onto it anymore. The universe will find a way to use it for good, it always does. I mean, have you seen compost?
Let go and move forward.
