What should you be dropping?
Is it time to let a few things fall?
Look around you. It’s Autumn and the leaves are falling. Yesterday in Essex was a perfect Autumn Sunday, bright blue sky and leafy smell as they crunched underfoot.
It was a warm day yet everywhere nature is preparing for winter by letting things go, cutting back, pulling in and retreating back to the core.
Could there be something in this for you? One of the ways to get clear about what you want is to stop doing things you don’t want. Sometimes the reason we can’t hear our inner compass is that we are too active, too busy doing a bunch of things we are not really invested in. Sometimes what you want only becomes clear during an enforced rest – an accident, illness or a twist in circumstances that forces you to stop for a moment.
Eventually you will have to listen to that inner compass but why wait for a crisis? Start now. Start this week.
What do you want to drop? What do you want to stop doing and let go of?
Who do you want to drop? What conversations could you let go of with relief?
Complete the sentence…
I no longer want…
I don’t want…
If you were to begin letting things go, cutting back, pulling in and retreating to your core, what would that involve? Could you start some of it today?
Do less of what you don’t want to do and you’ll create space to recognise what you do want to do. And when that shows up, do it.
Learn more about how to “Use What You Don’t Want” in Chapter 4:
