January is upon us and with it comes the expectation to be more and do more. Goals and resolutions start with this year of new, and pretty soon, we will all be knee-deep in regret of not accomplishing anything past the first of February and wallowing in self-pity.
Although I personally subscribe to the philosophy of having a “word” to encompass what I want the year to look like, lofty unattainable goals and feeling like something has to be accomplished, really and truly need to fall by the wayside.
Let all that $%!* go…
Let 2018 be the year that you LET IT GO.
Let go of:
- the need to be someone you aren’t
- inhibitions that prevent you from being your true self
- expectations that you unfairly put on yourself
- self-loathing and feeling inferior
Let go of all that is unnecessarily weighing you down. Whatever you are fighting, whatever you are struggling with, whatever is causing you to have sleepless nights…
Let. It. Go.
2017 was a messy year, let’s be honest. But here is a chance to make 2018 better.
As someone who can frequently get inside her own head and ruminate for hours on the past and decisions that should have been made differently, I can tell you that it is a fruitless exercise. A futile enterprise not worthy of anyone’s time.
If you are carrying the past, tethered to its mores, anchored to its beam, it is time to let it go. The past only lives because you give it life.
Let me repeat that.
The past only lives because YOU give it life.
If you feel that your past is weighing you down, the expectation of unfulfilled thoughts and dreams mirrored back in your reflection, turn the page. Get a new outlook. Change the station. Put the past in its proper place and move on.
Life is short and it goes by fast.
Please don’t spend the next 300 plus days of this year moored in regret.
Let it go.
There is an oft-quoted sentence that states “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results”.
Is this you? Are you doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome, yet it never happens?
Move on and let it go.
Remove the negative and replace it with the positive.
2018 is the year you are going to soar.
All you need to do is let go.
So true.. We all need to let go of anything that makes our life negative and enjoy it instead:)
Yes, definitely need to let go of the negative and focus on the positive!
Thanks for stopping by!! 🙂
I find that this is still one of the hardest things for me. I know I should be doing this for my own good, but I tend to hang on to things for some reason. I love that it’s your theme of the year!
It is definitely hard to let things go. I think it is something that many people struggle with, myself included. Let’s make 2018 the year we do it!!!
“The past only lives because YOU give it life.” Literally gave me chills. Because that is me in a nutshell. My past lives so strongly in me because I allow it. I fuel it with my thoughts and my pain and my shame. I relive it so much that it leaves me with little energy for today. It is most definitely time to let go. To move on. It’s not easy (like Tonya, this is an area where I struggle deeply) but I am committed to making 2018 and beyond about moving forward versus living in the shadows of the past. I love your phrase and can’t to see how you soar in 2018!
Your comment “My past lives so strongly in me because I allow it” is so true for so many of us and I feel that strongly as women, we are told to fit into a certain mold and when that doesn’t happen or doesn’t pan out quite the way we would like, it can leave us devastated.
I like that theme! Like the woman above, I found this statement powerful: “The past only lives because YOU give it life.” Thanks for this : )
Glad you liked it Ruth! 🙂