The Art of Letting Go.

We spend so much of our lives chasing perfection - perfect days, perfect outcomes, perfect versions of ourselves. But what if the real beauty lies in the flaws and the stumbles? Sure, it looks less Instagram-worthy and blushing never feels good...but it does feel freeing.

Live a 'drawing-on-a-fridge' life.

Your parents likely never blatantly stared at your stick drawings of the family when you were young and chucked it into the bin with a Gordon Ramsay-like disapproval (if they did, that's a bummer, but you are cool and you will get through this). The point is, in an ideal world, they embraced your imperfection and recognized that you need to draw these oversized heads and a dog that's as big as the house, to one day get to be the Architect or nurse that you're going to be. If we take the same approach, putting our ugly drawings on the fridge and celebrating them as valiant attempts at becoming better, or at the very least just creating something out of nothing...we will start to feel lighter. And if you wonder why feeling lighter is important...it's because being emotionally fat weighs you down in life...literally.

New lenses...the 'Weighless' of the mind.

Having a constant fear of not looking amazing or being a kickass person, changes your experience of life. Ice cream tastes different, music sounds worse and experiences with people seem daunting. That's the emotional fat-ness I mentioned earlier. When we change our lense or view in life to: "I am not perfect, but I am a damn cool kid." we start to experience things in a new way. We experience an emotional weightlessness that no amount of money can buy. The way new lenses also help us to navigate life in terms of the hard times, is something to look forward to. A coach once told me,

"You can think of life's hard times as hard rocks that you need to carry or as stones you can use to step on to navigate to the rest of your life."

Aim to view the world from a lighter point of view, then letting go of things that don't matter will become much easier.

Do we wait at the station then?

No, by no means should we stop setting goals for ourselves or strive to be better...all I mean is doing it on your own terms and your own pace. Having coaches and accountability partners is still something I highly recommend...but if they care about and know you, they will definitely allow you to let go and push within the limits.

Letting go doesn't mean letting go of passions and dreams, it means we need to let go of unnecessary and ungrounded opinions of the world around us.

Please never stop dreaming and going for gold...just make sure you don't spend more energy looking who's running next to you or who's watching, than you do on the race itself.

Let's go and let go!

TF