10 Ways Our Lives Change When We Let Go of Things We Can’t Control
The most practical changes happen when we choose to take control of what we do have power over, instead of craving control of what we don’t.Holding on can be painful.
Holding on can directly contribute to stress, unhappiness, relationship problems, and so much more. Yet, as human beings, we cling desperately to almost everything…We don’t like change, so we resist it.We want life to be the way we think it “should” be.We get attached to our ideals even when they hurt us.Over the past decade, as Marc and I have gradually worked with hundreds of coaching clients and live event attendees, we’ve come to understand that the root cause of most human stress is simply our stubborn propensity to hold on to things.
In a nutshell, we hold on tight to the hope that things will go exactly as we imagine, and then we complicate our lives to no end when our imagination doesn’t represent reality.So how can we stop holding on?By realizing that there’s nothing to hold on to in the first place.Most of the things we desperately try to hold on to, as if they’re real, solid, everlasting fixtures in our lives, aren’t really there.
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