Why Are You Holding on to It?

Every year, regardless of where you are located, there is always some form of climatic change. Nature just seems to be on a systematic clock that in order to transition and evolve into something different, it must embrace it. Every year, new life is developed and older ways are passed. The trees change colors and then eventually, nature takes course and the trees must let the leaves go. The tree will sit barren for months until new buds grow.

Now look at your life. Do a full analysis of each commodity that is of importance to you. All of your values, activities, people, career, education, and anything else you do in your life. What dead weight are you lugging around? What are you holding on to that is of no use anymore. Think of the leaves in the fall. They look beautiful at first as the colors change. But, they're dying. The look nice on the outside but on the inside they are whithering away. Soon they will all become brown.

Things in your life may look good on the outside but on the inside they are rotting. Relationships have gone bad. You smile, love, laugh, and then go to bed in tears. You sit and wonder why are things like this? How come you can smile one minute but yet you're hurting to your core. Your career is stagnant. You go to work and you give your all daily. Yet, you feel unappreciated, disavowed, and stonewalled. You adorn yourself in decent clothes. You keep yourself well groomed and manicured. Yet, your health is declining beneath you because your body just can't process foods like you used to when you were younger. A flight of stairs has you out of breath.

It can easily feel like life around you is crumbling. On the outside, the facade looks beautiful, but the inside is deteriorating day-by-day. How do you fix this? How do you stop carrying this load? Well guess what? It's the season of change. This is the season of transformation. You have to let go. Let go of the negatives that have decayed your life. Just as the trees let go of the leaves, you need to let go of the careers, the family, the friends, the relationships, the bad foods, the unhealthy lifestyle, and the activities that do not add value to your life. If you fail to let go of what is decaying, you will be destroyed from the inside to the outside.

How do you let go, especially if it's family? Sometimes letting go is not a physical disconnection. I encourage you to work on your marriages and relationships with your kids, parents, siblings, etc. Are their friends that treat you better than some family members? Yes. But at the end of the day, they're still family. So, how do you cutoff family? Some cases, letting go is not physically. It's emotionally. You have to allow yourself to emotionally fall like a leaf. Does that mean you no longer love or care about that person? No it doesn't. You are going through a season. The tree is still a tree even in the winter time. It will produce leaves again for hundreds of years. Your companion is still your companion, but the emotions have fallen off for a season. Create a new season. You both have to be on board with your new season. Process why things have fallen off in your "winter" and then establish how the "spring" will become.

What about your career or other areas. You have to do the same thing, detach and then process over the winter season of that activity. Then decide how the spring will be. What will you make it look like? For example, at the house you may decide to plant a new flower bed, make a garden, redo the landscape, or some other home improvement project. Well, I challenge you to take on a Life Improvement Project and begin to see how to make your life flow with new life.

You need to look at everything. Are you happy? Why not? What makes you happy? Plant the seeds of those things to make you happy. It's about you and that's ok. You have made life about other people. Unhappy people cannot make others happy. You don't have it in you. So, make yourself happy first and others around you will be happy by you. Dead plants do not make you smile, lively colorful ones do. Make a lively colorful YOU and everyone will enjoy it. Take advantage of this off season to spring up bold and beautiful as the season changes in your life!

It's time to plant new seeds and bring about blossoms of new harvests in your life!

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