If you’re trying to get ahead, it’s time to let go.
creating a career based on intuition + intellect
Building a career based on your intellect *and* intuitive inner knowing is a beautiful journey. You’ll surf your industry’s ups and downs while riding the waves of your inner seas–-your mental, emotional, and spiritual composition. These circumstances teach you, unfold you and grow you to new levels of personal capability and strength. No one is exempt from this journey. Some embrace the ocean flow, moving with the tides, while others navigate choppier waters.
Setting off on this journey means you’ve let go of the shores. That can be scary, sure. We’ve heard plenty of stories of shipwrecks and storms, keeping us gripped so tightly to what is familiar we never embark to see what’s on the other side of the horizon.
Lifelong personal development–where we continuously bon-voyage ourselves to new and hidden landscapes within–we master our seas. We learn how our mental and emotional habits can bring winds to our sails or keep us firmly anchored at the docks.
Our inner spirit takes its cues from our mental and emotional health. If the spirit inside you seems lost or parched, you can return home with a simple navigational recalibration.
You may have fully embraced your new journey and already have given it a valiant effort, but something still isn’t working, and the success you’re dreaming of seems distant, if not moving further away on the horizon. You may say to yourself every morning: “I am the captain of my ship! I am the master of my destiny!” And yet, your mental and emotional landscape (thoughts, habits, moods, and tendencies when stressed or stretched thin) do not reflect the personal badassery that your new role demands.
We can be so attached to the idea of who we were that we subconsciously do not allow ourselves to move into who we’re becoming. We stay connected to the past by repeatedly thinking and feeling the same thoughts and emotions, even if we know they’re not working for us. When we do not challenge these thoughts and emotions, we remain subject to their influence, and we stay firmly rooted in a painfully familiar place, even though we beg the Universe to show us something new.
Neuroscience tells us that we think about 60,000 thoughts per day. 80% of those thoughts are negative or critical, and 90% of those thoughts are the same as the day before. Leaving us with just under 17,000 new, novel, and positive thoughts daily. If you want the big, bold life you’ve always dreamed of - it’s time to increase your new, novel, and positive thoughts to well over the typical 28% of your consciousness. Let’s go for 50% - or even 100%!
But how? Let go of the thoughts you always think. Let go of the personality you’ve always acted from. Let go of the version of you that keeps your mind and heart small, plagued by storms of mistrust, denial, lack, and limitation. Let go of the cyclones of complaint and avoidance, fear and doubt. If you need to, place this version of you on a Viking funeral boat, light it on fire, and set it free to travel back to the ocean's depths. This personality is simply not you anymore, the past has been set free.
If you’re burying the past or a former version of yourself, it’s natural to grieve. It’s holy to feel the sorrow of life seeming like it was better before “that thing happened” or “before life demanded this of you.” Take the time to celebrate your loss. Cry if you need to. And then, when you’re ready, tell your Soul, it’s time to evolve. It will listen.
To make big leaps and shifts in your life, you must get real, *real* comfortable letting go of who you were. “Back then,” yesterday, and even 5 minutes ago. That version of you isn’t here anymore. You have evolved and moved into new waters meant to bring new aspects of your personality forward–new thoughts, new aspirations, and new dreams! All led from your inner wisdom–your intuition.
The more you’re willing to let go of what anchors you, the closer you move toward your inner guidance and knowing.
Application
Practice creating a new mindset:
“I easily let go of the past. Every single moment is a creation of newness unto itself, and I joyfully participate in the present.”