"Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold onto so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering-and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy-we cling on to them. Not anymore! Starting today we will give up on those things that no longer service us, and we will embrace change."
1. Give up on your need to always be right. Some of us can't stand the idea of being wrong, even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and others. Whenever you feel the urge to jump into a fight over who's right, ask yourself this: "Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?"
2. Give up your need for control. Just allow everything and everyone around you to be just as they are and you'll see how much better that will make you feel.
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond winning." -Lao Tzu
3. Give up on blame. Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don't have, for what you feel or don't feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.
4. Give up on your self-defeating talk. Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mind-set? Don"t believe everything your mind is telling you. You are better than that.
"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive." -Eckert Tolle
5. Give up your limiting beliefs about what you can and cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!
"A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind." -Elly Roselle
6. Give up complaining. (I am a bad perpetrator of this one!) Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, maaany things-people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It's not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking!!!
7. Give up the luxury of criticism. Give up your need to criticize things, events and people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.
I'll post the remaining half of the list later this week, so stay tuned!
Robyn
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