Are You Strong Enough to Walk Away?
We had been on this trail before and knew the stunning view that awaited us. I knew it would be a stretch, but equipped with my new hiking sticks, I thought I could do it. I wasn’t sure about my husband, but he was willing to try.
We stopped to rest frequently and slowly made our way through the beautiful aspen forest and up the mountain. When we thought we were close to our goal, some hikers coming down told us we still had quite a way to go. We’re in our 80s and chose to keep going.
It was much harder and took much longer than we expected to reach our lovely overlook. We collapsed on a log and contemplated how crazy we had been to do what we later discovered was hike a mile with an elevation gain of about 400 feet—or a 40-story building.
We reflected on being caught in the PREVIOUS INVESTMENT TRAP! We could have stopped but had already gone so far that we didn’t want to give up. We did not ask the important question: Given our current understanding, would we start the project now?
We might have chosen to just enjoy the beauty around us and let that be enough.
When you have invested a lot in something it’s hard to give it up. Letting go is a challenge. Ask yourself the question and then use the magic sentences in this book to help reclaim your energy and move on.
This post is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 41 revised edition, Page 43 original of Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®). You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of this book. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.