When to let go

"We practice letting go, and in the process, we find peace." - Leo Babauta

Letting go can be one of the hardest things a person can do.

Whether that is a pet project, a business, a goal, a lifestyle, or anything else.

When we set ourselves down a path, whether it was fully intentional, or something that presented itself as a seed of an idea, and we just went with it, we can become fully engaged.

As we progress towards a result, challenges present themselves, and we adjust to overcome those challenges. Sometimes, we don't recognize those challenges as signals to stop.  Some results are different than what we expect.

Our lives don't exist to follow a singular path.  Some paths are dead ends and worth the journey.  Some, are not.

When our current path begins to affect our physiology, making us stressed, perhaps causing stress related effects, it is possible it is time to let go.  When we start to lose ourselves in our goal, when we change against who we are, it is possible it is time to let go.

Always remember that letting go doesn't mean failure.  Letting go often means our health and our clarity.  And with our health and clarity, we can approach any new opportunity with complete engagement.  It can also mean we are more able to tend to the things that we forgot, on our way to our goal.