Are you still clinging to the old?

Is it time to unclench those fists and let go? Aren’t your hands tired by now? Isn’t it exhausting to hold on so tightly?

Maintaining and holding onto stuff or a way of life that no longer serves you is exhausting. So is keeping up the façade and pretending you still need that thing, relationship, or the piles of memories you’ve accumulated.

I’ve noticed how much stuff I had hung onto and no longer needed or wanted. So, slowly over the last few years, I have let go of things that no longer fit my lifestyle or were past their usefulness.

Things I never thought I would release from my life.

It got me thinking back to when I first moved out of my parent’s home to be on my own. I was 19 years old and moved from California to New Jersey, 3,000 miles away from all I knew. I left everything behind with only one suitcase in hand.

I left behind my family, friends, childhood bedroom, and lots of stuff I didn’t need. I thought I’d come to get it later; however, I never really did, but a few things my parents boxed up and shipped to me.

Years later, after several moves to various parts of the U.S., it took a sizeable professional moving van to move all our stuff across the country as we moved back to California.

Where did we get all this stuff, and why were we compelled to keep it?

Of course, some of it was useful in our next home. However, more than 50% of it, if not more, could have been left behind.

This week I share the most recent thing in our home that we let go (see the video below). It’ll motivate you to look around and see what it is you could do the same.

Please share with me what you plan to let go of, give away, or toss that no longer serves you. And how wonderful it feels to once and for all unclench those hands!

(Short video – 6:0min)